Feb. 7th, 2008 10:56 am
Dear Lazyweb/Geeky Question
Just out of curiosity,
I'm looking for a low cost, small, quiet box, likely to install linux on to be a network server.
Mostly, it's to share a large external hard drive, and possibly to host a DLNA media server (for the PS3).
So, basically the requirements are:
Cheap
Small
Quiet
USB 2 ports
Can run Linux (with samba, and a DLNA/uPnP server... or otherwise can do this without linux. It would be nice to have a linux server around though.)
In an idea world something like the Mac Mini would work great for this, but it's not *cheap*. A 40 GB PS3 would also work, but it's not particularly *small* (and maybe still not *cheap*).
Any great and wonderful solutions would be appreciated.
I'm currently using an old laptop for this (meeting everything but USB2 ports, the external hard drive is slow! tee hee!)
I'm looking for a low cost, small, quiet box, likely to install linux on to be a network server.
Mostly, it's to share a large external hard drive, and possibly to host a DLNA media server (for the PS3).
So, basically the requirements are:
Cheap
Small
Quiet
USB 2 ports
Can run Linux (with samba, and a DLNA/uPnP server... or otherwise can do this without linux. It would be nice to have a linux server around though.)
In an idea world something like the Mac Mini would work great for this, but it's not *cheap*. A 40 GB PS3 would also work, but it's not particularly *small* (and maybe still not *cheap*).
Any great and wonderful solutions would be appreciated.
I'm currently using an old laptop for this (meeting everything but USB2 ports, the external hard drive is slow! tee hee!)