Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-08 Thread Peter
short_y wrote: Peter;178172 Wrote: My colo costs me ~$16/mo Peter, please PM me. I'm interested where you're colocated cause I've been thinking of doing the same thing. I'm here: http://tinyurl.com/2fcoc7* ;) * It's really close to my house, but most likely pretty far from

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-08 Thread JJZolx
gweempose;178134 Wrote: I recently got an SB3, and I absoutley love it! My music is currently stored on a 7200 RPM drive in my PC. This PC is powered on 24/7 and runs the SlimServer software. All of my music is backed up to an external USB drive which is connected directly to the PC. Since I

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-07 Thread short_y
Peter;178172 Wrote: My colo costs me ~$16/mo Peter, please PM me. I'm interested where you're colocated cause I've been thinking of doing the same thing. -- short_y short_y's Profile:

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-06 Thread MrSinatra
if money is no object, get a NAS box and do a raid 5 so it can survive drive death. even better would be to store your music at a remote web server, so you could listen to it and stream it from there, to yourself wherever you are and your friends or whoever. i don't know if you could get SS

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-06 Thread mattybain
even better would be to store your music at a remote web server Has anyone had any success with web servers and streaming to the squeezebox? I notice that oboe have an unlimited account for $39.95 a year but is this really unlimited. I have 120gb of music would this reallybe covered? Also is

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-06 Thread Peter
mattybain wrote: even better would be to store your music at a remote web server Has anyone had any success with web servers and streaming to the squeezebox? Well, I have a colo server that runs slimserver. I normally use it for running SoftSqueeze at work, but there's no reason I

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-06 Thread srasher
erland already gave a neat summary of the general options, I'd just like to add some of my personal experiences (to make choices even harder ;-)): 1. Loudness: Of course, it is very likely, but a NAS solution might not necessarily be more quiet than a dedicated PC/workstation solution. I

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-06 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], MrSinatra[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: even better would be to store your music at a remote web server, so you could listen to it and stream it from there, to yourself wherever you are and your friends or whoever. As long as bandwidth from the server is

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-06 Thread gweempose
Thanks for the feedback, guys! Since I always have a PC running 24/7, it probably doesn't make any sense for me to go the NAS route. Most likely, I'll set up a large RAID array inside my PC and use an external drive for added backup. -- gweempose

Re: [slim] What is the ideal way to store and serve your music?

2007-02-05 Thread erland
gweempose;178134 Wrote: I see a lot of people talking about storing their music on some type of NAS device. What are the benefits of this approach? Is there some other type of setup I should consider? Some different setups and their advantages/disadvantages in my opinion. The main advantage