2011-01-28, 13:47
Hi all,
I currently have my desktop pc in the living room with 3TB of space, which is now far to little.
I am looking into getting an small footprint ION box to stick behind my tv, and a NAS with around 8TB to compliment this.
I was going to buy something like the Acer EasyStore (which a friend has and I like) and stick 4x2tb drives in it.
I dont need a raid setup as I share my media with two freinds, so we all act as a backup for each other.
My new thoughts are to replace the case and a few key components in the desktop and stick it under the stairs and use it as a server, thus i can use the 3 1tb drives I have and add a couple of 2tb.
For now I just want to have XP on it (as it is what i know - minimal linux experiance) and will only be running sickbeard/couchpotato/SAB/VNC with all the drives shared up.
The pc has a striker II extreme m/b which has 6 sata ports which should suffice for now, and I have a dual core p4 on it atm.
In terms of power consumption and noise, how small of a power supply would I get away with and how little fan-ege would suffice, considering it will be doing very little and will only be accssed via VNC occaisionally (and very, very rarely have a screen attached)
The psu i have at the moment is some stupid 750w (or something) with leds etc that a freind gave me.
Sorry if this seems like a ramble, because, well it is. I will put up more information on the current components when i get home and look at them (if needed)
thanks
I currently have my desktop pc in the living room with 3TB of space, which is now far to little.
I am looking into getting an small footprint ION box to stick behind my tv, and a NAS with around 8TB to compliment this.
I was going to buy something like the Acer EasyStore (which a friend has and I like) and stick 4x2tb drives in it.
I dont need a raid setup as I share my media with two freinds, so we all act as a backup for each other.
My new thoughts are to replace the case and a few key components in the desktop and stick it under the stairs and use it as a server, thus i can use the 3 1tb drives I have and add a couple of 2tb.
For now I just want to have XP on it (as it is what i know - minimal linux experiance) and will only be running sickbeard/couchpotato/SAB/VNC with all the drives shared up.
The pc has a striker II extreme m/b which has 6 sata ports which should suffice for now, and I have a dual core p4 on it atm.
In terms of power consumption and noise, how small of a power supply would I get away with and how little fan-ege would suffice, considering it will be doing very little and will only be accssed via VNC occaisionally (and very, very rarely have a screen attached)
The psu i have at the moment is some stupid 750w (or something) with leds etc that a freind gave me.
Sorry if this seems like a ramble, because, well it is. I will put up more information on the current components when i get home and look at them (if needed)
thanks