Disadvantages & Limitations of running SB Media Server on SD card or USB

[aubuti]

OK sounds good. My question is then whether somebody on this forum pulled a dedicated barebone together for the LMS package. Something working really stable and for not too much $$.

That would be ... the Vortexbox Appliance.

In my view the Vortexbox Appliance was too much $$ because I don't mind (ok, I actually enjoy) opening the case to install RAM and hard drive, and then installing a Linux operating system. Doing that myself saved me some $. But if you want something that works straight out of the box, you have to pay that extra $.

Of course, a lot of other users on this forum have put together barebone computers as dedicated LMS servers for themselves and/or friends. There are some examples in these threads:

http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...mputer-Options
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...6-Vortexbox-PC
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...8-Shuttle-XS35
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...HDD-Assistance
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...orter&p=707587
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...eezebox-Server

EDIT: and I shouldn't forget the main thread for the hardware platform that I am now using (the MSI Wind barebones that is the same as the 1st generation Vortexbox Appliance)
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...72-MSI-Wind-PC