JohnSwenson;488859 Wrote: > I still think your best bet is to get a vortex box, it comes with either > a 1 or 2 TB disk and comes already loaded with SBS, its the easiest > thing on the planet for adding general purpose NAS AND squeezebox > server. > > Vortexbox is two different things, software and hardware. You can > download the software for free and run it on your own PC, OR you can buy > the vortexbox hardware which includes the computer, hard drive and CD > ROM drive for ripping CDs. The 1TB version of the box costs $349 and is > ready to go when you unpack it, including Squeezebox server already > installed. It includes the NAS software so you can use it as external > storage for any computer on your network. It comes with the drive so you > don't need to buy anything else. > > They just came out with the micro version which is much smaller but > does not have a builtin CD drive (you have to use an external USB CD > drive to rip if you want to rip on the micro). Its $419 but only comes > with a 500G drive. The micro is TINY if thats important. > > BTW I just did a test of the Touch as NAS, it DOES work but its pretty > slow. For these trials I used a fairly fast USB drive connected directly > to the windows computer, to my linux files server using samba to the > first computer and connected to the Touch using samba to the first > computer. I was transfering a 670MB wav file in all cases. In all three > cases the same external USB drive was used as the source. > > Direct connect 26 S > Linux file server 70 S > Touch 252 S > > John S.
I am truly amazed at how competent answers you get in this forum. You have motivated me to smash the piggy bank after New Year. Thank you. Do you know of other low budget amplifiers with intelligent auto turn off (music auto-detect, turns the amplifier on / off automatically) as this super nice one from Denmark: http://www.sumoh.com/index-2.html - they are working on an S80 with 2 x 80 watts. Does this do the precise same job ?? ( http://astore.amazon.com/vort-20/detail/B00026BQJ6 ) - im not into what preamp is - just need a simple and god low budget amp (with power safe auto off) that will work with the SB Touch and a set off speakers. Alternatives ? Can you recomment som low budget speakers - I like a different but stylish design - you know i was raised on Bang & Olufsen (B&O) because I am danish.... http://www.orbaudio.com/index.asp http://www.roundsound.com/nucleus-micro-speakers.htm http://www.monitoraudiousa.com/products/radius-hd/r45-hd/your-speaker Do you have any thing good to say about these ? Alternatives ? :-) Great test BTW - 9,7 times slower at the Touch - ok for some music tracks - but to slow as a real NAS solution. -- Dr. Akoya ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Akoya's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32122 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71703 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
