I strongly recommend the Vortexbox approach. Just replaced my old music server about 2 weeks ago with one.
They come as a preconfigured hardware device starting for under US$500 (exact cost depends hard drive size) or you can download the software for free. I did the latter and bought an inexpensive Foxconn server on Amazon. I do ripping on my other computer so didn't bother with the optical drive in the VB server. I also used an existing HD I owned so my total investment in the new server was $150. The Foxconn has an Atom based processor so has plenty of horsepower for music server duty, running Logitech Media Server (the current version of the old Squeezeboxserver program.) However, the Atom processor has very low power consumption and easily runs 24/7. This approach eliminates the stability problems people have using the Touch directly with a USB drive and the Vortexbox approach gives much better performance than the usually underpowered NAS boxes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mlsstl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95085 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
