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Hello @all Subsonic Users
At the moment I am running my subsonic on my normal computer. But sure this is not very efficient.
So I thought of a better solution. But my problem is that I can't estimate how much "power" subsonic /musiccabinet needs.
I only use it for Music (no videos).

I thought if maybe a Odroid with Linux would be good. http://www.hardkernel.com/renewal_2011/products/prdt_info.php?g_code=G135235611947
But once I installed an App on my Galaxy S2 and converted a .wav to mp3. It was perhaps 1X or 1.5X speed.
So my question is: Do ARM devices have enough encoding power? (for example for FLAC -> MP3).

What would you recommend me as a "normal" energy saving cpu setup with decent power?
(I could for example make a software RAID5 with some iCore ?!)

Thats my second question:
Is it better (in case of RAID 5) to get a small PC with perhaps i5 so that I have enough power for a software RAID.
Or is it better to buy an expensive RAID Controller?

Thank you for your advice!!

Uh, did you even look at this thread? (right below yours in this forum)

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11114

There's also I Pi thread, NAS threads, Pogoplug (and other 'Plug' computer) threads...I wonder if it isn't time to separate out a specific hardware section here in General...

thequestionmark wrote:I thought if maybe a Odroid with Linux would be good
Thank you for your advice!!

I'm using this with an ODroid-U2. Check this post out:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11569

I'm using my home PC (Windows 7/64bit)
CPU - 2600K @ 4.4GHz (Watercooled to 23c with hard usage)
16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM (1864MHz)
Radeon 6970's in crossfire (4GB)
15TB HDD in random mode
Some overpriced, stupidly named Creative soundcard with a break out box, that I am too embarrassed to actually name in adult company
Asus Mainboard (Z68 chipset)
Corsair 600T SE case (keeps the airflow nice and cool)
And a bunch of other stuff

1 regular user (yes, you read that correctly!) and no, it's not me.
100Mb fibre* connection
4.2TB of content as of me typing this (almost all copyleft or public domain from netlabels)

* I'm English, so the 'e' comes at the end