Aspire Revo Desk Top PC vs NAS for Music Server

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I currently store all my music on a external hard drive attached to my clunky old PC.

I have a laptop for other PC taks so the clunky PC is used only as a music server running Squeezecentre for my Squeezebox Duet.

I was looking to replace this PC with a NAS but I have seen the Aspire Revo Desk Top Pc available for £150 - which seems a good alternative.

Is there any reason why I should avoid the Revo and go with the NAS?

 

[The_Lhc]

I saw that (ebuyer email by any chance?), the only thing that would bother me is that it only has one HDD, which is only 160Gb, so a) expanding means either replacing the drive and re-installing the OS or adding an external drive, which requires another power feed and b) you have no RAID protection like that you'd get with something like the ReadyNAS Duo, which won't work out to be much more expensive once you've added another 500Gb drive to one that you get free with it (if you assume that you'll need to add a bigger drive to the Revo anyway...).

 

[Anonymous]

the_lhc:I saw that (ebuyer email by any chance?), the only thing that would bother me is that it only has one HDD, which is only 160Gb, so a) expanding means either replacing the drive and re-installing the OS or adding an external drive, which requires another power feed and b) you have no RAID protection like that you'd get with something like the ReadyNAS Duo, which won't work out to be much more expensive once you've added another 500Gb drive to one that you get free with it (if you assume that you'll need to add a bigger drive to the Revo anyway...).

Yes it was ebuyer.

I have a 1TB ext HDD which stores all the music backed up by another 1TB HDD.

The 160gb drive would only be used for the OS.

Does this change your thoughts?

 

[The_Lhc]

I can't see a great deal of reason for getting the NAS in that case, unless the 1TB HDDs are SATA, in which case you might be able to put them in the ReadyNAS, although it may well format them when you do!

 

[Anonymous]

I was looking at this a while back but was slightly put off by the supposed poor performance of the atom cpu.

I ended up getting a similar model by ASRock (the 330 Ion) which has the dual core version of the atom processor and have to say that I'm mightily impressed. ÿI'm currently ripping a CD to mp3, playing iTunes, converting some wma to mp3s and typing this without any hint of slow-down at all which would never have happened on my admittedly (very) old pc.

I'm not sure how much this system is now but it was only just over £200 when I got it and easily worth the upgrade from the Revo (it has a 320GB hard-drive and CD-drive to start with). It's £250 on over-clockers but I think you can find it cheaper than that.

By the way, the reason for the reduction is that I believe aspire are launching a dual core version soon so a quick search might bear fruit.

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