If you are looking for a disk for your audios, pretty much everything works. Even usb1.1 (12Mbps) is enough to support a few slimserver clients.
When streaming data slimserver uses lame so it needs to be able to read the file in native format mp3 (up to 320Kbps). The rest is done in memory and fetched out onto a network inderface. Personally I love the Samsung 500GB spinpoint T166 sata, because it is cheap, silent and very cool. seektime is average, but sustained read is high, which is great for streaming. A recent disk can easily write around 50MBytes/s. Regarding opensuse, use xfs-filesystem with no-logging (noatime,nodiratime,logbufs=8) for best performance. My squeezebox + flash mp3 player from same directory runs all the time, It doesn't even show up in the rrd-graphs of disk-io, way below 1MByte/sec. -- mortenb ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mortenb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38646 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
