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>For example, you can build a totally fanless PC (no fan in power supply, passive cooling etc.) and solid state hard disk (eg. high capacity compact flash or similar). The actual music files can be stored elsewhere (ie. on a server or NAS).

Careful when using flash disks, depending on your OS and configuration you can kill a flash drive very quickly, as it's only good for a few hundred thousand writes before it fails. This is fine for music files and pictures, not so much for OS temp files, the registry, the MFT, or swap.

Linux has no problems with a read-only boot drive, and even has special filesystems available that reduce the likelyhood of killing writable, bootable flash devices. Windows tends to hate it. There's a utility called BartPE that lets you build bootable windows CD's, you could probably use it to build a read-only filesystem that could boot from flash.

If you are going for a fanless solution, check out the new low powered processors from Intel and AMD. They vary their clock speed depending on load, so they only use as much current as needed to perform a given task. These are probably well suited to using a fanless heatsink solution.


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