In message , Eeyore
writes
Derrick Fawsitt wrote:
Can I ask you to help me in building or even buying such a PC with a
spectacular spec that would fulfil the above criteria.
Your 'music indexing' and playing PC will need to be in the listening room. The
spec is very light and you'd be best off with a fanless PC (they do exist) to
avoid noise.
http://www.stealthcomputer.com/littlepc_fanless.htm
http://www.deltatronic.de/int/quiet_pc.html
etc....
Ideally it's an application for a diskless workstation in fact. Look
particularly at PCs based on mini-ITX mobos that happen also to be low power
consumption and therefore require little cooling.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-ITX
The music files should be in another place to remove the hard drive noise.
Rather than use a PC for this, you'd probably be best off with NAS drives
(network attached storage). These will work with many operating systems btw.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage
Graham
Sorry, I have been away and therefore did not see your kind advice in
response to my query.
I think the above confirms the general consensus of opinion I have
received so far and I will now pass this to the chap who is supposed to
be building my PC for me.
Thank you all again for your time and trouble.
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Derrick Fawsitt