I was reading the "new products from Bryston" topic the other day, and the post for Bryston to make a music server. So I thought you guy's might be interested in seeing pictures of the music server i built last year. i used this particular external case because it reminded me of the original Bryston 4B form factor.
This unit has Via ITX cpu/motherboard with 1G RAM. It is passively cooled, using the heat sinks on the sides (no fans) . It boots from a internal thumb drive and has 1 WD Green 1TB SATA hard drive, The O/S is FreeBSD with the FreeNAS application installed on top. I have also installed Michel Herger port of the Squeeze Center Service. It services 5 Squeezebox's throughout the house streaming WAV's, FLAC and MP3's effortlessly. I was also using it as a video server for a while until I ran into disk capacity issues. All management is done via HTTP, and it can stream media traffic at 70mbps all day long.
Please forgive my photography skills.
