[slim] DroboShare and SlimServer
The Drobo data robot was very attractive when it was announced, but a non-starter for me because I need a NAS. What I really want is a NAS that can run slimserver directly and not choke when I'm using the web-based controller (unlike my NSLU2). They just announced the DroboShare, which is a gigEther connected SMB-only front end to a Drobo. It's a closed box, and won't run applications other than Drobo. I like the Drobo RAID technology better than Infrant's, but I would need to come up with a slimserver box, preferably something that doesn't have rotating parts. I'm not sure that the WRT54 family has what it takes to run an SMB client and SlimServer and the web front end ... they're limited in both RAM and horsepower. Any words of wisdom out there? I know the Drobo is new, but perhaps you've already run slimserver on a WRT box or something similar? Which one? Thanks. -- cak cak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42275 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DroboShare and SlimServer
Or, asked another way... Storage aside, what's a minimal reasonable config for running slimserver? I don't have a bunch of PCs lying around fallow, so I'm thinking I'd buy a mini-ITX box to do that job. -- cak cak's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=11641 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42275 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] DroboShare and SlimServer
Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], cak[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Storage aside, what's a minimal reasonable config for running slimserver? I don't have a bunch of PCs lying around fallow, so I'm thinking I'd buy a mini-ITX box to do that job. I have a small 'Shuttle' based linux box that is a Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz with 256Meg of RAM. As well as running Slimserver (503 albums with 7872 songs by 192 artists) it also runs my firewall, internet gateway, POP3, SMTP, web proxy, SMB file sharing and countless other services. It's probably not the snappiest solution, but it's very usable. I would expect that pretty much the cheapest PC you could buy these days would be more than capable of running Slimserver under Linux. Adding more RAM would likely be the most obvious improvement. Andy ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
