My first custom MediaServer
2004-08-14 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.
This replaced my old mediaserver (which was a 486DX2-66 running Slackware 3.6 with about 60GB of storage space).
UPDATE 2009.05.16:
This box is now retired after nearly 5 years of service, but at its peak it had these characteristics:
- 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.
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