Posts by cdru

Quote: Originally Posted by whiteboy714 Whoa the OP is drawing some serious juice. I run an athlon quad (actually an unlocked tri) with like 7 hard drives. Don't have a kill a watt though. Hoping its under 100 watts. Your processor...

Quote: Originally Posted by N3W813 Currently, my server is using ~280W idling costing me about $70-75 per month in electricity usage. How did you compute $70-75? 280 watts * 24 hours * 30 days = 201.6 kWh. Highest average...

Quote: Originally Posted by assassin I am pretty sure there are people using x64 and live tv just fine. Hopefully they will chime in. I have two HTPC using x64 with a shared HDHomeRun Prime without problems. One I know for sure uses...

Quote: Originally Posted by spivonious Just remember that heatsinks don't work without airflow. Sure they do. They just don't work as well. Convection currents will dissipate heat, but if you don't have a forced air flow you need a...

Quote: Originally Posted by Zon2020 While I wouldn't advise it, they'll even work fine upside down. What's wrong with advising it? I've velcroed many drives to cases upside down to avoid sticking it to the circuit board. Never a...

With the exception of the video card, there is nothing wrong with that hardware. It can be improved upon (faster processor, larger hard drive) but it's not a requirement. And the video card probably would work unless you want to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Lars99 Second system means second license for unRaid. You'd likely have several thousand dollars in drives and hardware when you get to the 20 drive limit of unRaid. A $30 incremental charge for a 2nd...

Quote: Originally Posted by Darin But the downside of unRAID is that with their 20 drive limit, you can reach a point where replacing smaller drives with larger ones is the only way you can get more space No, it's not the only way. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Sammy2 IDK if anybody mentioned this or not but striped drives are not such a grand idea as a failure of one results in a loss of data on all. I guess "striped" wasn't quite what I was looking for. I was...

Quote: Originally Posted by StardogChampion Call me fanboy. Patrionizing companies that treat you right doesn't make you a fanboy. It makes you a loyal customer.