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Been using 5 WD 2TB Green drives in software Raid 5 in my Windows Homer Server 2011 box, and 2 WD 1TB Green drives in my main box in hardware striped RAID. My server stores mostly movies. My main box stores largely just games. My main box has the OS running on 60 GB SSD. I find the setup to...

I've recently built my own e-350 setup too. I used a fanless Asus mini ITX with a Lian Li case. I also put 5 WD 2TB Green drives inside running WHS 2011 with software RAID 5. The PSU has a fan and i placed a Noctua 140MM case fan at the lowest speed settings. Its not inaudible, but very quiet...

Hmmm... you make a very good point. However, the comparison also shows around 4X the power consumption at load. The net effect seems to be the same for power usage, so the i3 only edges out on time. The i3's TDP might make it harder to go (nearly) fanless.

Im thinking of creating a file server/HTPC-like machine to store all my stuff (mostly movies). It will be placed next to a television so i'd like it to be as quiet as possible, if not silent. It'll be running 24/7 so while power consumption isnt a huge concern, lower is better. Asus E35M-I...

I prefer LiveMesh as its easier to keep a folder structure than Dropbox.

Thank you for your responses, especially kamikazekyle. Yeah, there doesn't seem to be an elegant and economical solution to what i want besides extending cables. I'll look into some wireless KVM switches i've found as that comes somewhat close to what I want. Good to know in any case. Thank...

Well, the idea is to have my desktop in a closet with nothing but a power cable and use wifi, though i can get an ethernet cable in there with little issue. I'm not sure about running the audio, keyboard, mouse, video, and microphone cables up to 15 feet. The nettop will act as some...

The whole desktop. The application can be fairly "dumb" about it. Just stream the entire desktop regardless of its contents. I dont even need (or want it) heavily encoded and compressed.

Im aware of the current limitations of virtualization. I also looked at RemoteFX and theres surprisingly little information available in regards to its gaming performance. And yes, they do work best with Quadro/FireGL cards which are expensive and underperforming. My goal was to let the Brazos...

My brother is moving out. Im getting his room. I'm converting my original room into an office. I'd like to keep my gaming rig in my new room's closet as i leave my PC on 24/7. My rig isnt super noisy, but if i can eliminate the noise entirely, then i'd love to. I'd like to have just my...