Kirk,
Can we assume you are using LiveWire for audio interfaces?
I'm building a mobile studio Rivendell standalone using a Qutom fanless
with a 2.0 GHz quad-core Intel Celeron processor, 8GB of memory, 16GB of
SSD and 1 - 10/100/1G Ethernet. They consume 10W at 12VDC and they come
with a US power supply. I'm buying them right from Qotom in China. The
price was $175 plus shipping from China ($26 + $9 transfer fee). You can
get lots of different add-ons but this configuration should be plenty
for a client. Since there are no moving parts it should last until the
capacitors dry out.
I think the NUCs of an equivalent horsepower are a little more money but
they should work as clients.
For my mobile studio I'm using a USB3 3TB disk drive to store the audio.
I have an Asus touch screen to attach to it. Should be a fun box. For
the mobile studio I can't use LiveWire so I'm going with a Pevey USB-P
to interface to the mobile studio's analog board.
The Optiplex computers are really enterprise class. You could just
replace the disks with SSD's and replace the fans. There's plenty of
horsepower in the Optiplexs. People are running Rivendell on Raspberry Pi's.
Bill Putney - WB6RFW
Chief Engineer
KPTZ - Port Townsend, WA
PP-SEL/A&P-IA
I'm at it again... Running for Port Director. If you're interested:
http://PutneyForThePort.VOTE
On 5/19/17 10:50 AM, Kirk Harnack wrote:
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
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