Hello, My Squeezebox arrived this weekend, and to try it out, I installed SlimServer on my XP machine, and it works like a dream.
But my intention is to install SuSE Linux or freeNAS on an old 800 MHz machine I have, and run SlimServer on that. However, I'll have to upgrade the hard disk, since the original is only 20 GB. Has anyone any advice as to which brand of hard disk works best? I'm thinking that I'd like to be able to spin down the hard disk when not in use, do all modern hard disks support that? Can Linux support it? What hard disk controller should I use? I think the original hard disk is IDE, should I buy a new SATA controller. (I don't know much about hard disk hardware!) As well as using the old box to host my music files, I would also like to use it to back up all family's PC. I suppose that this shouldn't be a problem? How much memory should I install on the box, I think the original PC has 256MB installed. Many thanks, Paul -- ppmoore ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ppmoore's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13157 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38646 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
