Hades

I would do the same if it didn't make my OC unstable. AMD 920with a 240fsb. It will go much much higher but I need to improve the water cooling which I will be doing over the next few days. 920 2.8ghz @ 3.4

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dapriest

I got this case, 2 1TB drives and a 850W power supply. I've going to take my current desktop and drop in the two 640GB caviar blacks in raid1. Mostly for OS + important data. Then I'm taking the 4 500G drives and 2 1TB and dropping them in. Then slowly moving out the 500G drives for 1TB. Then I got about 5-6 500GB/250GB drives that I'm going to put into my media PC. And if this case works out I'm going to buy another for the media PC. Ultimately I'll have about 8+TB of data.

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MintyMadness

I gotta tell you priest.. I don't want to presume to know how much you've messed with media pc's.. probably more than I've played with computers in general, lol.. but I am noticing for sure now, that noise is a big issue. Fan and hard drive noise to be exact. I can't image dropping that many drives in my media center PC. I'd go nuts. The case would HAVE to be very well insulated from noise for me to do that....

I'm actually thinking of swapping out my Seagate 1TB for the WD Green series 5400RPM 1TB drive, so I can quiet the system down a bit. Already disconnected one of my 120mm fans.. bout to do the other.. downgraded to the 8600 from the 8800...

Anywho..

Just sayin'..

Blue_Knight

I just checked email promotion on this case from Newegg, its on sale and has a 5 star rating for 149 reviews. After rebate, price is $74.00. I'm looking for another case; can use my promo code here and get it for $64.00 after rebate. I may have to consider this one myself for a the second computer I'm putting together.

Blue_Knight

Damn, that's a lot of storage. You must have some serious work going on.

Hades

Does your media PC sit by your TV priest or do you have it in another area? A lot of my friends are setting up NAS raid 5's for their media solutions. I can't afford the raid card yet but I'd like to move to this as well.

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dapriest

I mostly just download my movies and they're usually 4-8GB each. Instead of burning them, I just store them. I backup most of my software too ;D . I also need to backup a couple of servers. At this point I need to upgrade my case in my room because its so small and I got loads of drives and other things in it. The space will help. I might buy the same case again and construct a storage box.

I've been using a midtower PC for a media pc on a TV I got fixed, its DLP and just replaced the lamp. I've disconnected all the fans in the PC except for the CPU/Chipset fan. It's got two drives and has a fanless $20 ATI card. It's not that loud, and it plays 1080p perfectly. The media pc cases are expensive and I don't care about aesthetics. It's just retarded how it can cost $200+ for a small htpc case.

If you want more storage, build a server with drives and install linux with samba. Then you can put the case anywhere, as long as you have network. Just don't do wireless, I'm having more issues with 802.11g and watching movies. I got an old manage gigabit switch. Which I'm hoping to put somewhere with all the network equipment. You can also setup iscsi on the linux server, and install microsoft iscsi on a client and mount drives locally and write to them.

Yup, its right beside it. RAID5 is great for redundancy. I would use it for data that cannot be lost. But for media files, which are important. Just use raid0 or raid1. Raid5 has two problems, a write hole that causes data to be rebuilt incorrectly and cause data corruption. And a write penalty, which you can read more about here.

Processor Editorial Article - Bent On Storage

You can fix both using an expensive raid controller that has a battery backup with memory module. The last couple of writes before a power loss is saved and can be re-written or the the checksum of the radi5 array can be correctly repair. When you have memory and a battery attached to your controller, you can enable write cache. This will speed up raid5 and the write penalty won't even exist.

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Hades

yeh thats exactly what 3 of my friends are doing.... raid 5 w/ battery. Nearly a grand all in for a decent one. The OS is on a raid 1.

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dapriest

A grand for the raid controller or everything together. You can pick up a decent controller for around $300-$500

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jigabooplz

priest you should do that idea like i had...

get a hot swap drive case that holds nothing but drives and links to a server via fibre channel, SCSI, or ESATA, have a good raid card in the drive box, and a good RAID controller in the server/HTPC and run a RAID 6 on like 14x1TB wd caviar black drives. that will give you 12TB usable space and ability to lose 2 drives at once without data loss.

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dapriest

Yea, I might get someone to fabricate something for me. Cause I don't like paying out of the ass for something like that. I would run raid10 for important stuff and raid0 for all my media. If I lose it, I can always download it again.

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dapriest

I just got the case, waiting on the 850 power supply and drives. So far the case is really good quality for the price.

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dapriest

I got this PSU for $110

NCIX.com - Buy Antec Truepower Quattro 850W Power Supply ATX V2.2 EPS12V 20/24PIN Active PFC 80PLUS Dual 8PIN PCI-E - TPQ-850 In Canada.

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blazeway

nice

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dapriest

yea, ill post up some pictures, going to move my main comp into the new case.

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