NSLU2
I keep a small box running linux in my office to act as an off site backup and local music server. Yes, I know how pathetic that sounds. It’s an older ShuttleX box and way to loud, it was becoming a distraction. So last week I picked up a Linksys/Cisco NSLU2 from newegg.com and installed Debian on it. It’s hard to tell from this photo but it’s about the size of my open hand.
I had a spare 320GB hard drive sitting around so I used that as the root partition and primary storage drive. I’ve got mt-daapd and samba running on it, plus every night it connects to my home server via rsync to backup my critical data.
So far the only negative is that the initial connection to mt-daapd from iTunes is slower than my original server. Other than it seems to work fine. I’m going to let it run for a week or so before retasking my old box.
