Posts by Nebiroth

I was originally going to go for a Radeon 5670 as recommended in Rene's guides - now obviously we have the new 6xxx range (surprisingly available for pre-order here in the UK, we usually have to wait for ages for product to trickle over...

Quote: Originally Posted by itruns Hey Rene, If the main use of the i3 2100 sandybridge in a HTPC is the on-board video...yet you still recommended a dedicated video card on the April list...is it so weak as to affect video quality? ...

According to MediaBrowser's guide, nesting folders like the above should work fine. Their example is pretty much exactly what the poster was trying to do with his SAW movies, ie, you create a folder for the movie group with it's own...

Remember to choose the level of RAID that does what you want. Many people assume "if it's RAID I am safe", but some RAID levels are less about the safety of data and more about performance or uptime

Like I said, where I know there is or will be a BD edition I'm holding back on those until I go BD. At the moment the priority is finishing up all the stuff I want to get on DVD, and which will likely never be on BD. Not least to get it...

Yes, 5Gb (not Tb lol). I'm just using MakeMKV. As many of them hold TV episodes, they tend to be stuffed to the limit of what a DVD9 will hold. I've got 3,500 discs. The 5Gb per disc is only a very rough guess, obviously quite a few...

Quote: Originally Posted by Danarama I was looking at getting a case where i attach all HDDs to a SATA Multiplier and connect that to my HTPC via an eSATA. Will i be able to use such things as FlexRaid etc? Yep. What you're...

Obscure B movies and old TV series! There are a few BD releases, but I'm much more interested in completing my "wants" list - which is as long as your arm! My budget won't cover both so BD is definitely on the back burner. I'm not...

In reference to the above - my DVD collection could easily encompass 20Tb without any duplication/backups, assuming an average of 5Tb per disc - some would be more, some less. And that is utilising MKV's, stripping out everything except...

Quote: Originally Posted by Tommyboy10 Unfortunately, i believe a lot of us with anything but the most recent hardware and windows 7 or WHSv2 are stuck using 2tb drives. Not a huge problem do to their size to cost ratio, but none the...