Piers Finlayson wrote:
On 2010-12-05 19:35:22 +0000, Jim K said:


Well, from my initial toe-dips into this murk (representing the
tentative start of one of my quantum leaps in home kit) it seems
eminentlly doable to run Loitech Squeezebox server on some NASs -
Logitech even provide installation instructions and support to certain
Netgear (i think) NAS products...

NAS appeals so far as:- quiet, low power consumption (10 - 15w),
hopefully unobtrusive - to be stashed away somewhere out of
sight...poss other +'s and -'s I haven't grasped yet ;)

I'm using one of these as my PC: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ - actually
the older fit-PC, not fit-PC2.

It was claimed at around 4W for the PC itself.

I find that a bit optimistic.

The two USB drives
obviously add to this, and I didn't bother checking their rated power
consumption.


I reckon my solution may pip yours to the post using internal drives.
And its neater.

And has a parallel port enabling me to dump a print server box.

Obviously, in my case it's dead easy to run the squeezeserver on the PC,
cos it's a PC and there's no NAS hoops to jump through. I admit never
looking into what these hoops might be - I use this PC for other things
as well, so I needed a PC and not a NAS, and then once I had a PC the
NAS seemed a bit pointless.