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Solution for NAS and HTPC

  • 25-11-2007 12:42pm
    #1
    workaccount
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    Rather than buying a dedicated nas box I was thinking I might use a personal computer instead with 3 or 4 500GB drives.

    I also want to build a HTPC computer. Is there anyway I could integrate these at all.

    Also, I am looking for a amp to power bowers and wilkins vm1s and an as1 woofer. What should I be looking at? Would a €200 budget amp (samsung or something) be ok?


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  • #2
    kaisersose77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭kaisersose77


    Yes just choose whatever case you like that supports the amount of harddrive you want, and then get a suitable motherboard,cpu,ram,psu etc

    Building one myself at the moment. Would be cool to have a big NAS but im just building a htpc with a load of harddrives instead.


  • #3
    workaccount
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,460 ✭✭✭workaccount


    The thing that was concerning me was noise. Would it not be very noisy with all those disks?

    Out of interest what case are you using that will allow you to have lots of hard disks?


  • #4
    kaisersose77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭kaisersose77


    well i went for a tower case

    http://www.drivecity.de/product_info.php/info/p155599_ATX-Midi-Antec-P182-gun-metal-black--ohne-Netzteil-.html/Query/p182/imageField_x/0/imageField_y/0/act/search

    It has 6 harddrive bays, but you can convert some of the dvd drive bays into harddrive bays if you wanted. I'll have 5*500gb sata harddrives (have 3 in my current pc).

    but you can get nice looking htpc cases aswell that support around 5/6 harddrives

    Hopefully I get the rest of the parts I've ordered this week and have it built by next weekend. And i'll see how noisy it is then.

    Basically mine will be:
    p182 case
    q6600 processor (thats overkill for a htpc, but i want it for encoding to xvid etc and watching satellite HD)
    2gb ram
    gigabyte ds3r motherboard (has optical out as far as i know, so will connect it the dvd player which has optical in)
    thermalright ultra extreme 120 cooler
    3 scythe fans
    8500gt ( has HD hardware acceleration, so watching HD stuff doesnt fully depend on the processor, have this in my current pc)
    5*500gb harddrives
    DVD Burner and normal dvd drive
    Skystar HD ( high definition satellite pci card)

    and then will have pc connected to my lcd


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