Re: Media Servers

["Patrick Lidstone <patrick@xxxxxxx>" <patrick@xxxxxxx>]

> Out of interest how much memory have you installed on yours.

I have 256MB RAM, of which 70MB is currently used as a RAM disk. In 
case you didn't realise, I'm running Linux on this box - booting 
windows shouldn't be insurmountable, but would almost certainly need 
a network share in order to persist stuff like the registry.

If there's enough interest, I can make the Linux build I'm using 
available as a server-bootable image.

>  I take it that without any internal storage all software is held
in memory?

In my case it's a mix - the vast majority is held in RAM, but there's 
also a network share mounted to provide access to less frequently 
used binaries.

> - going back a few years, I used to work for a company that used
RPL
> computers, is this the same sort of process? 

Not come across RPL computers before?
It's an interesting that memory and disk technology/prices have 
evolved to the point that it's now cost effective and feasible to run 
desktop tasks on a ramdisk-only machine...

Patrick



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