2014-04-14, 00:24
Now, for my HTPC I am looking for Cheap HDMI output, this can be onboard, however I want a soundcard capable of 24/96k audio. Currently I am running into some bottleneck on the system I have with all the media I have indexed I think. my youtube app takes 5+ minutes to load a trailer when I want to bring one up. I remove all the network shares from the system so there is no media, and youtube loads instantly. So I need to upgrade this to a more efficient system. I'll probably want an integrated onboard IR sensor for this as well.
All of my media is currently hosted on 10x 2TB hdds spread across 3 machines. I'd like to consolidate some of my rack space and get these all hosted from a single system. I plan on building a NAS box for all of this. I know nothing when it comes to hardware for this, should I buy a quality board and use PCI-E sata cards, or find a board with 10+ onboard sata ports?
There's simply too much hardware on the market to know exactly what is right for my needs.
All of my media is currently hosted on 10x 2TB hdds spread across 3 machines. I'd like to consolidate some of my rack space and get these all hosted from a single system. I plan on building a NAS box for all of this. I know nothing when it comes to hardware for this, should I buy a quality board and use PCI-E sata cards, or find a board with 10+ onboard sata ports?
There's simply too much hardware on the market to know exactly what is right for my needs.