[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

last one for $40 loaded). They are also reliable in spite of their being the very low end of Sun's line a long time ago. Converting formats on-the-fly is not something I had considered. I'll have to look into this more. -- DrJ

[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

can easily get a new 160GB drive for $20 or $30 if you are careful. -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854

[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

just have to try it. It would be easy enough to set up a test bed and see how heavy the web interface is on system resources while something else is playing. -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php

[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

by religious issues (such as Micro$oft is evil). What the deal? -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854

[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

-in that is transparent to the user? That is, the server would send the file in FLAC format, and the client computer does the conversion on the fly, as opposed to having the server do it. -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http

[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

a wired connection (higher rate and less overhead). -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854

[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

thanks for following up and clarifying. -- DrJ DrJ's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4920 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22854

[slim] Hardware Requirements/Guidance

minimum for a two or three users? FWIW, I was considering running it on an old Sun Ultra 5 with about 256 to 512MB RAM on FreeBSD with enough disk space off an auxilliary controller. Is there any reason this should not work adequately? DrJ -- DrJ

[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

perception. You can encode once on whatever machine you want, transfer, and then the serving should not take that much. I may well give it a shot. I figure I can put together this server, with 300GB or so of storage, for about $100. DrJ -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver

[slim] Re: Hardware Requirements/Guidance

leave reliability out of this for the moment). SCSI would put it in a whole 'nother price range, but I did just buy a wonderful Seagate 147GB 10K.6 drive for $80 (four years warranty left). It can be done. -- DrJ DrJ's