Re: Media Servers

["Patrick Lidstone <patrick@xxxxxxx>" <patrick@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "James,Daniel" <Daniel.James@E...>
wrote:
> Patrick
> 
> Thanks for the link
> 
> I was toying around with various ideas, but if I can build a near 
silent PC
> for under the TV, SWMBO will be very happy...
> 
> Me thinking it could be used for:
> 
> MP3 link to Hifi - serving files from PC, and using OSD with 
Creative Live!
> drive
> link for digital camera, to enable pictures to be downloaded.

It will certainly do all that comfortably. Mine will play MP3's from 
a network fileserver without flinching (6% CPU).

> Showing House status via web
> quick web browsing..
> 
> These certainly look promising, on the one you have built, is there
much
> noise from the PSU fan?

There is no PSU fan... The PSU is in two parts, with a laptop-size 
power brick and a small internal voltage conversion board. The box I 
used is supplied with a couple of small air circulation fans, but I 
don't use them - the box runs cool without them.

I didn't want a hard disk in mine, because of noise and reliability 
issues, so I started off using a CF flash to boot the box. The CF 
flash died in mysterious circumstances a couple of days ago (probably 
defective), so I've now configured the box to network boot from the 
server. I wish I'd done this earlier -- it's much more convenient, 
saves on the cost of CF, and wasn't at all difficult to set up. I'll 
do a write up on the whole process when I get some time.

Patrick



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