Excited to finally get my HTPC going. For awhile now I've been using my personal/gaming desktop (which is 2 years old already) for the whole family and now I can start my build. Ill be receiving the last of the parts today
The current machine had:
Zalman Z11 Case
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-DS3H
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge
Rosewill HIVE Series HIVE-650
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (4 x 4GB)
ATI TV Wonder HD 650 (moving to HTPC)
ASUS XONAR_DG 5.1
PNY XLR8 GEFORCE GTX 560TI
6 - 120mm fans
2 - 80mm fans
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
2 - Seagate 1tb hdd (moving to HTPC)
1 - WD Green 1.5 hdd (moving to HTPC)
1 - WD 250gb hdd
New HTPC:
NZXT Source 210 Elite (This case has room for 8 hdd)
ASRock Z77 Pro4 LGA 1155 (This board has room for 8 sata connections)
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge
16Gb (4 x 4Gb) of some 1333 no name memory
Rosewill HIVE Series HIVE-650
Gigabyte Nvidia GT 520
ATI TV Wonder HD 650
4 - 120mm fans
2 - Seagate 1tb hdd
1 - WD Green 1.5 hdd
4 - Seagate 750GB hdd (1 will be the system drive untill I can get a SSD)
ASUS Black 12X BD-R
What do you all think about the HTPC?
Whats your opinions?
Do you guys think I should use DriveBender DrivePool or go Raid? or what?
The current machine had:
Zalman Z11 Case
GIGABYTE GA-Z77-DS3H
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge
Rosewill HIVE Series HIVE-650
Crucial Ballistix Sport 16GB (4 x 4GB)
ATI TV Wonder HD 650 (moving to HTPC)
ASUS XONAR_DG 5.1
PNY XLR8 GEFORCE GTX 560TI
6 - 120mm fans
2 - 80mm fans
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
2 - Seagate 1tb hdd (moving to HTPC)
1 - WD Green 1.5 hdd (moving to HTPC)
1 - WD 250gb hdd
New HTPC:
NZXT Source 210 Elite (This case has room for 8 hdd)
ASRock Z77 Pro4 LGA 1155 (This board has room for 8 sata connections)
Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge
16Gb (4 x 4Gb) of some 1333 no name memory
Rosewill HIVE Series HIVE-650
Gigabyte Nvidia GT 520
ATI TV Wonder HD 650
4 - 120mm fans
2 - Seagate 1tb hdd
1 - WD Green 1.5 hdd
4 - Seagate 750GB hdd (1 will be the system drive untill I can get a SSD)
ASUS Black 12X BD-R
What do you all think about the HTPC?
Whats your opinions?
Do you guys think I should use DriveBender DrivePool or go Raid? or what?