My first custom MediaServer
2009-05-16 00:04 by Ian
This was the first serious media server I built. I built it into a home-made acrylic case. The pref-board visible on the top of the harddrive is the adapter that I had to make to get the 50-pin low-density connector to breakout into a real 40-pin IDE cable. That is the secondary IDE channel. The whole PC is contained on that one PCB. It used to be a Dell WebPC.
- Booted Slackware 7 from a 256MB CF card
- 766MHz Celeron with 384MB RAM
- Apache/PHP so I could test my web pages on it
- Samba for file-sharing
- The no-ip client, so I could connect to it anywhere on the internet regardless of what IP my ISP gave me.
- 333GB of storage space. For 2004, that wasn’t bad.
Previous: A capacitance meter built from discrete ICs
Next: The Laser Microphone