Hello Everyone, Thank you all for the replies !
My only experience (so far) with Linux is that I can spell it, and "Overkill" is my middle name :-) As far as the choice of hardware... I already have the spare 3.0 Ghz Pentium D, so I'm building the box around it (along with a spare DVD-ROM drive). The bare bones small form factor PC costs $380 (plus $88 for 2 x 1GB Samsung DDR2 800 MHz memory, $33 for the Radeon X1050, and $9 for a USB keyboard for the Linux installation). We are running a gigabit Ethernet network at home, and are using the Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter in both of our PCs. For $35 this NIC card can't be beat ! (And I'd rather use it than the Broadcom BCM5789 on the motherboard). Total cost (excluding hard drives) = $ 545, compared to the other two options I have been strongly considering: $ 300 for the TS-201, and $815 for a diskless ReadyNAS NV+ (1 GB ram). Yes, this is probably overkill for running SlimServer, but if for some reason Linux does not work out for me then I can always install Windows on the box. As far as storage goes, this will give me a terabyte of hardware RAID 0 storage. (Small form factor = two disks max). I rip all of our CDs on my PC and keep a copy there, and also back the rips up to our USR8700 NAS. So having the music on the Linux/SlimServer box means that there are three copies of my precious rips, so I'm not quite so concerned about having a possible drive failure.... -- DLloyd ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DLloyd's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9063 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38519 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
