Unitiserve internals

...and just for comparison the HDX (albeit in SSD guise). Apart from the obvious power supply differences and the lack of analogue output stage the Serve is (not suprisingly) near identical to the HDX. Very neat.

It's a computer a Jim, but not as we know it.

Anyone told the guys over on our Computer Audio thread?

Tog

Computer components are very light - any weight comes from the power supply and with the serve this is external.

Neat internals - a lot of wasted space.

Tog

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Originally posted by Tog:
Computer components are very light - any weight comes from the power supply and with the serve this is external.

Neat internals - a lot of wasted space.

Tog

Not really wasted. Large heatsink and passive cooling so the case can't be too tightly packed.

With no power supply the main source of heat will be the processor and teac drive. This should be manageable with the aluminium casework acting as a heatsink. The new Mac Mini server will take 2 500 gb drives and is far smaller.

Tog

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Originally posted by Tog:
The new Mac Mini server will take 2 500 gb drives and is far smaller.

Tog

And has a fan.

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Originally posted by james n:

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Originally posted by Tog:
The new Mac Mini server will take 2 500 gb drives and is far smaller.

Tog

And has a fan.

V small and v quiet

Tog

But still a fan. Better with passive - no fan, no noise, no vibration, no ingress of dust.

A further thought - the unitiserve i. Remove the Naim PCI board for those installations where it's only used for ripping / serving rather than s/pdif source ?

James

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Originally posted by james n:
A further thought - the unitiserve i. Remove the Naim PCI board for those installations where it's only used for ripping / serving rather than s/pdif source ?

James

I think it would cost more to introduce a new model, separate ad, brochure,... than what is saved by removing a board...

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Originally posted by james n:
But still a fan.

James

Yeah, me too. I love my Mac Mini .

A smaller lighter model just for streaming - small SSD for software - no optical - passive cooling only - we can rip perfectly well elsewhere - no PCI board - uses your NAS

Say £950 - UnitiCentre.

Job done - I thank you

Tog

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:

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Originally posted by james n:
But still a fan.

James

Yeah, me too. I love my Mac Mini .

Lol . I still love mine. It's been relegated to the study and sits on top of my NAS for UPnP and general iPod/Pad/Phone syncing duties. Poor thing

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Originally posted by Tog:
A smaller lighter model just for streaming - small SSD for software - no optical - passive cooling only - we can rip perfectly well elsewhere - no PCI board - uses your NAS

Say £950 - UnitiCentre.

Job done - I thank you

Tog

What would it do that your NAS couldn't?

Well I wouldn't be buying one ...but for your Naim completist it would give your naim UPnP Server ... and er .... that's it.

Fantastic value.

Tog

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Originally posted by james n:
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A further thought - the unitiserve i. Remove the Naim PCI board for those installations where it's only used for ripping / serving rather than s/pdif source ?

James

Can we have also a UnitiServe Xtreme with just the SPDIF present and all the UPnP removed?

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aleg

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Originally posted by Aleg:

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Originally posted by james n:
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A further thought - the unitiserve i. Remove the Naim PCI board for those installations where it's only used for ripping / serving rather than s/pdif source ?

James

Can we have also a UnitiServe Xtreme with just the SPDIF present and all the UPnP removed?

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aleg

Naim announce 2011 UnitiServe lineup...

UnitiServe Value:

Just a beautifully crafted case - with mood lit Naim badge that shifts from green to light green.

UnitiServe "Taste the difference":

A standard SSD UnitiServe with teasmaid.

UnitiServe Heretic:

A standard UnitiServe with Vortexbox - aka "I can't believe it's not Naim"

Tog