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Grant Sewell wrote: > I've been mulling over this for a while now, and I'd appreciate some > input from you lot on it. > r > Basically I'm looking to replace the box I've had running as an > all-purpose 1-user homeserver. I've pretty much boiled it down to > either a Debianised Buffalo HS-DH320GL 320GB Linkstation Live (ebuyer > code: 139061) or one of those Viglen MPC-L boxes with an external USB > harddrive. > > My thoughts on this so far as that the Buffalo, although it has a larger > capacity it is harder to make it fully useful (ie Debianising it) and if > there are problems with it, it is likely to be harder to troubleshoot, > whereas the Viglen has less storage but can easily be expanded and it > should be relatively trivial to Debianise it, since it can be used > locally too it should be easier to troubleshoot if things do go wrong. > > I'd appreciate your input and experiences. > > Cheers. > Grant. Anyone got any thoughts? I'm still leaning towards a Viglen with bigger harddrive. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html