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RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - aoaaron - 2012-04-19 how do you guys rate the mac mini (2011) or 2010 or 2009 models. the mac mini seems a really attractive purchase for myself ATM since I have all apple devices (airplay compatible), have a bunch of apple remotes lying around which I love, etc, 3 years warrantee and student discount bringing the price down to £480 or so. I do worry about: 1) 10bit media 2) longitivity my best xbmc experiences have been on my MBP. RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - eskro - 2012-04-19 i say not so prime time anymore... RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - aoaaron - 2012-04-19 'prime time'? could u expand/explain plz? RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - eskro - 2012-04-20 old stuff, better options out RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - Beer40oz - 2012-04-30 Poofyhairguy...... we miss you! I hope you are alright..... hope everything is well.... RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - eskro - 2012-04-30 yeah man, what up Poofy? Hope all is well too! No PM reply ever since RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - Beer40oz - 2012-06-06 Not recommended drives: 1. Samsung drives (especially F4s) - they have data loss issues and updates that you can't confirm Well mine was made on 03/2012..... Hope they really fixed the issues.. THE SAMSUNG FIRMWARE PATCH DOES NOT CHANGE THE FIRMWARE VERSION NUMBER (Believe it or not!). Yup! this is right! RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - Dougie Fresh - 2012-06-07 Yeah, you have to love the Samsung firmware tool. The only way to know you don't need to upgrade is to run it and see if it does anything. Horrible. RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - poofyhairguy - 2012-06-07 Honestly if Samsung drives reported correct temps I could stand the firmware issue. RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - Beer40oz - 2012-06-10 (2012-06-07, 20:39)poofyhairguy Wrote: Honestly if Samsung drives reported correct temps I could stand the firmware issue. Gotcha! if my WD (EARS) on top says 29C and the Samsung says 26C under it you think it is off? maybe they fixed that issue too... RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - poofyhairguy - 2012-06-10 It is a little off it seems. The few I have had have all been off about 4-5C. That would be right for yours too. As long as you know that (like a clock that you set ahead in time) you are fine. RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - greenep48 - 2012-08-20 Hi - new user here. You might want to update the NAS hardware recommendation links - the stuff listed is DISCONTINUED. Just for fun - before getting into HTPCs I was using a WD TV Live box. Turns out it also works as a NAS interface for any USB interface storage device. Right now I have my music library on an 16G thumb drive in the WD machine and everything works fine. RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - Dave_qp - 2012-08-27 Does anyone have any experience with a USB3/eSATA to 5 SATA? One external eSATA or USB3.0 host port can access 5 units of SATA drives with Hardware RAID R0, R1, R3, R5, BigDrive supported http://www.scan.co.uk/products/lycom-ub-208rm-usb30-and-esata-to-5-driver-h-w-raid-adapter-(-for-1u-rack-mount-) RE: Poofyhairguy's HTPC Recommendation Thread - riteshraja - 2012-11-03 I plan on buying a HTPC for the sole purpose of running XBMCBUNTU on it. I have experience or rather nightmares with getting display,networking etc working in Linux because of drivers. Is there a particular model of HTPC that is the most common right now and compatible with XBMCBUNTU? I was considering going withAcer Revo RL100-UR20 route. RE: Advice on Hard Drives and SSDs - srj1209 - 2012-11-05 (2011-02-15, 09:58)poofyhairguy Wrote: [HTPC's] @Poofyhairguy: Since your last post on HTPC configuration is more than a year ago, I have a a couple questions for you on this subject. My present HTPC configuration is - 1. I plan to use an existing laptop (hp8440p - core i5 with 4 Mb RAM and a Nvidia 3100M Video built-in). This laptop has a display port in the rear. I have a displayport-to-HDMI adapter and a HDMI cable which I will use, to connect the laptop to the HDMI port on the receiver (Pioneer SC-1222K). The receiver is connected to the TV. 2. I have installed Windows7 X64 Ultimate, XBMC Eden. I have also installed HD Audio patch over Eden. This HTPC will stay close to the TV in the living room. I control the XBMC on laptop from an iPad, using the free app. provided by XBMC. 3. I am presently building a NAS server to stream my movies & music. Most of the movies are HD with HD audio. This NAS will stay in a different room. The NAS configuration is intel Celeron G530 (dual core - Sandybridge), 8Gb G-Skill RipJaws RAM, EVGA LGA1155 and P67 motherboard. Since the idea is only data streaming, I do not have a video card. If the onboard dual LAN ports become a problem/bottleneck, I plan to add a intel Gigabit CT PCI-E network adapter. The audio receiver, HTPC and NAS are all on a Gigabit network with gigabit switch and gigabit router. The points I am not decided about and need your help, are - 1. Hard Drives - What types of HDs (rpm, sata2 or 3, make and capacity i.e., 1 TB or 2TB) do I buy? I keep hearing that any make tends to have problems and one is no better than the other. Other articles also say that buying sata3 drives really doesn't help and as the transfer speeds of the drives 6 Gbps cannot be utilized by the current hardware (mobo I guess) and a 3 Gbps (sata2) is good enough. Question is do we really get those theoretical speeds in real life for either a sata2 or sata3 drive? Bottom line, which drives to buy? 2. OS - Many people use WHS, FreeNAS or unRaid. I know your preference was unRaid. Have anyone tried Windows7 or Windows8 as a server? I read that Win7/8 seems to be having the mechanism to create pools of space (which may not exist in reality), to which a physical HD can be assigned later. How is this different from the unRAID approach? Since my HTPC is Win7 based, which OS do you suggest for the NAS server? Appreciate if you can read through this long winding message and send your comments / suggestions. |