ScottMayo said the following on 01/30/2006 09:28 PM: > What I'm looking for is > > 1) RAID support. I want this to be my music and backup system; over > time I might want to get to 800G of fault-tolerant storage. > > 2) spin down is essential. > > 3) lowish power and noise. I don't mind 30W peak. (My current music > server is a dual processor with bunches of fans; several disks and it > sounds like a jet revving for takeoff. Mercy knows what it's sucking > down in terms of wattage, but I can't live with it.)
You'll struggle to stay within 30w peak with 800G of RAID storage. Even if you use 500Gb drives, 800GB is three drives. > > 5) Fast enough to keep the SB remote fairly snappy. > > > 6) I'd like to be able to edit the server's perl scripts, so I assume > that means linux, not windows. No, you can run slimserver using ActiveState perl. It's pretty straight-forward. This wiki page might be of use, especially if you want to run a dev. version from svn: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?InstallSVNTrunkAsService > > 7) I can't be rebooting it every other Tuesday because Microsloth found > another bug. I assume that means linux. Windows XP should be pretty stable and you don't have to install updates if you're not directl;y connected to the net and don't use the machine day in, day out for browsing. > > 8) The disks have to be visible from Windows boxes, so I can back up to > it and drag .flac files to it. FTP is not an option; I'll never get my > family to mess with that. XP Pro does that out of the box. Linux has Samba. > > 9) It can be ugly as sin; it's going to live in a closet. No monitor, > keyboard, CD, DVD or video. When I need a prompt I'll expect to > telnet. Use ssh. telnet is best disabled. > I don't expect to spend bottom dollar for all that, but I have no idea > what I can expect to spend. I've never bought linux boxes. What do I > need to make slimserver happy? 1Ghz, 512MB? Less? More? What's good? > Pointers appreciated. Buy as much RAM as you can throw at the box. 512MB is minimum for an XP box. 1GB would work better. R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
