I use Carbonite www.carbonite.com
It's super easy to use and set up. They offer unlimited backup from local drives for a flat rate annual fee. They also recently added some remote access features but I haven't tried this yet.
I'm still looking around but the little Acer unit looks nice.
I did try streaming a high bit-rate file across the network tonight from another PC and everything playing without any glitches - so network speed should be fine...
Wow, that sounds like a beautiful setup. Off topic... but do you do any online backup? I've used Carbonite with my main system but I don't think their service covers NAS.
Great feedback. Definitely has me thinking about things. I'm definitely leaning towards some sort of home server setup. I'm not worried about transcoding as I have a couple of i7 920 machines at home that I use for day to day stuff.
I like the small size of the Acer server. I could put...
I came across a NAS speed comparison at:
http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/component/option,com_nas/Itemid,190
It looks like the WD NAS is fairly far down the list. I'm not sure if the 8TB version is any faster but I'm a little concerned that this may not be fast enough to stream Blu-rays...
I definitely would be worried about losing all data if one drive went down. You KNOW that it will eventually happen....
As a RAID 5 I think the 8TB version would offer 6TB of storage - correct?
I'm interested in setting up a NAS that I can use to rip my Blu-ray collection to and then stream the content to my HTPC via my home network and playback the content using a combination of My Movies and PowerDVD9 Ultra.
It seems the WD 8TB NAS...
Using the Lian LI PC-C33B case, I got the rig built on Friday. GOOD NEWS - the Radeon 5870 fit without having to make an mods to the case. It was close but it fit perfectly.
The Lian LI looks to be a really good option for someone wanting this card in a HTPC type case. The case has a lot...
I use the Badaboom application to re-encode videos for iPod, PSP, and Zune HD and have been really impressed by the speed of the encodes using one of my GTX280's.
It seems CUDA however remains largely untapped, yet has so much great potential.
What does NVIDIA plan in the future in terms...
I was on the auto-notify list for an ASUS Radeon 5870 at newegg and they came in yesterday. I decided to go ahead and pull the trigger:
I ordered the:
Lian Li PC-C33B
ASUS 5870
COOLER MASTER Silent Pro 700 RS-700
LG Blu-ray burner
I have a 2TB Hitachi drive coming from Dell and a...
I poked around Newegg for a while and came up with this case: LIAN LI Black Aluminum PC-C33B ATX Media Center Link. It seems that this may be a little bigger than the Silverstone. Perhaps an easier fit for the 5870?
The Panzerbox case looks really nice but unfortunately will be too tall for where I need to house it. Any other options for a large, horizontally orientated case?
Thanks for the feedback - that's really helpful. I'm not dead set on the Silverstone case, but it sounds like it should work if pull out the center HD cage. Four hard drives will be more than enough - likely only start with two. The Lian Li case looks nice as well.
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