Eddie Armstrong wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: >> Not sure if you'd need the 32MB card, does it have on-board video? >> > Not AFAIK it spare anyway it seems it might be useful
Maybe. If it's anything like the old Dell machines we have at work (OptiPlex GX100/GX110 machines) the on-board video will cover most if not all tasks. An extra video card could maybe give you dual head. My server is running a 2 meg S3 PCI video card and it sits in the loft. I have an old 14" CRT monitor attached which rarely gets used. Most of the time the server just runs. >> Are you going to run software raid on the hard drives? I >> >> > Not at first maybe get something later >> Do you need to run FLAC streams? > Oh Yes - this is my one (?) weakness! Must be CD quality :-) >> AFAIK FLAC is more CPU hungry when >> compressing audio. O >> > But will compress/uncompress take place on the desktop/player or server? > i am worried about streaming 2 audio streams and maybe ordinary file > transfer and general use by 2 users at home. As far as I know the compression takes place on the server. Being a lossless compression unless it has dedicated hardware (for instance APT-X as used in the radio industry) then it'll use the main CPU. It may work but you might find that you'd have to plump for a faster CPU or high quality OGG stream. To be honest OGG is pretty good and better than MP3 format. > Where are the bottlenecks - can one drive cope with data throughput? I'd say use an Ultra DMA IDE cable, I suppose you'd be looking at UDMA66, possibly UDMA100 which would probably be fast enough for a couple of audio streams. >> It also runs >> VMWare Server which runs another server installation which does my >> e-mails (so it's basically two machines in one). A >> > Don't give me ideas :-) It's energy efficient :-) I managed to consolidate two servers into one. If I had a enough spare cash to upgrade the server to a dual core machine I could probably run a couple of servers on it. >> I take it Apache isn't going to be heavily used >> if it's for testing? >> >> > No, 2 users- domestic use for server, Apache for testing - maybe small > databases later. > Most heavy use will be for music while I work > Eddie I'm sure your P3 machine will be up to the task. Give it a try, you won't loose much, just think of it as a learning experience. If it doesn't work then just have a re-think :-) Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
