Re: Build your own MP3 PC

["Mark McCall" <mark@xxxxxxx>]

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The other thing would be to build an old PC into a 19" case but these
still
seem to be hideously expensive!

Thanks

M.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Bradford" <colin@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Build your own MP3 PC


>
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Mark McCall wrote:
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> > NICE!
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> > That 1U high PC is loverly.
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> If you're after 1U PCs, Digital Networks (http://www.dnuk.com) amongst
> others sell them in the UK. I think xinit might do them as well. Dell
> have just started doing them in the US, but the Dell ones are
optimised
> for web serving.
>
> A couple of points about them for home automation use:
>
> - They're very deep - you can't stack everything like you can in a
> normal case, so all the components have to be placed side by side. I
> think mine are about 600mm deep.
>
> - You can only fit one PCI card - there is an adaptor in one of the
> motherboard PCI slots to turn it through 90 degrees, so the card is
> parallel with the motherboard. However, they've got video, ethernet,
> sound on the motherboard.
>
> - Adding extra disk space could be tricky - there's not a lot of room
> left...
>
> Otherwise, they're great. I use several as web servers.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin.
>
> P.S. - not affiliated with Digital Networks, just a customer.
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