If you put the server elsewhere, the level of quality of parts as it relates to noise generated in the listening environment stops being an issue. I use an aging laptop w/ a music storage USB HDD and it runs XP. Its so old I had to add a USB 2.0 PCMCIA card. It is running on wired ethernet and lives in a 1/2 bath/ laundry room. The processor is about 1GHZ and there is 512MB RAM. My experience is that SBS doesn't require that much in the way of resources. Vortex Box software (Fedora linux) is free and includes SBS, is another possibility. If running wired is a problem, another wireless router running in bridge mode (or a wireles access point) can connect to your internet router. Powerline ethernet gets derided for adding noise to your powerlines but I've yet to find an actual case of this happening, and can save crawling around in an attic or crawlspace. This still allows you to shut off the wlan card which generates electrical noise.
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