Dear braintrust, Please direct me elsewhere if this has been discussed and answered already; I'm new to this list.
I'm currently running 5 radio stations, using Rivendell in a server/client setup. The client machines (running rdAirPlay) are some refurbished Dell Optiplex PCs. They're now almost 3 years older than when we put them online in this role. No serious issues yet, but I feel they're getting old and they're perhaps a bit underpowered. I'm considering going in one of two directions. 1. Using refurbished Dell R610 server-grade hardware. Nice-looking ones are about $200 on ebay, with all the rack-mount hardware. They sport dual power supplies. They come with one hard drive of 146 GB. I could add a 2nd and RAID them. They're very noisy, but they'll go in a rack room. Hard to imagine the noise of 5 of them, however. 2. Go with an Intel NUC-style platform. No fans. Likely enough horsepower. Cost more (as they're new, not refurb); indeed, the ones I seem to need are about $500 each. I would need to get NUCs that have 2 NICs, as we use an Axia network in addition to our Rivendell network - and we keep them separate. Perhaps someone could point me to a known-good model that costs closer to $200 or $300? I like the robustness of the Dell R610's, they're easy availability, and the likelihood of parts availability for some time. I do not like the size and noise. I like the NUC-style machines for their low power consumption, quietness, and that they'd be new. As the role for these is simply to run rdAirPlay, grabbing files over the network from the rdServer, seems the hard drive doesn't need to be large. Thoughts? Thanks! Kirk -- Kirk A. Harnack, CBRE, CBNE [email protected] http://twitter.com/kharnack https://www.facebook.com/kharnack http://www.youtube.com/kharnack
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