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    Seasonic Platinum-660 660W Power Supply Review @ [H]

    "Paul's Thoughts: Is anyone still reading at this point of the review today? I mean, I don’t know what you really want me to say here since I would have bought this unit after page 4. Well, I guess, relative to other Seasonic units, like the PLATINUM-1000, this unit is kind of homely which...
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    Building an expandable NAS

    Along the lines of SnapRaid, look at FlexRAID as well or Unraid.
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    Low power, "good enough" performing HTPC?

    Thanks for checking. Sounds about right, slightly higher power consumption than my ASROCK Core100HT running an Arrandale i3. Those SandyBridge cpus(and I'm assuming IvyBridge as well) are really good for idle power consumption. Have seen quite a few articles where regardless of whether the...
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    Low power, "good enough" performing HTPC?

    Great! Grab a measurement while idle and also while its doing something like playing a movie or whatnot.
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    Low power, "good enough" performing HTPC?

    Verge, did you ever have a chance to do this? I'm still curious as to your power consumption. Also, post the setup too please. Just like to compare.
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    Which full tower case has the most HDD bay?

    I'm running with the Fractal Define R3 and that has 8 3.5 HDD bays, and there's also 2 5.25 bays, which you can either mount two hdds in those 2 bays or can put an adapter bay in there which can convert the 2 bays into 3 3.5" bays. There's 10/11 bays right there, and I think the XL is a bigger...
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    Low power, "good enough" performing HTPC?

    What's "hardly anything" to you? I think its a subjective question as everyone's perception of high power use is different. As an example, a HTPC I built based off a Pentium G620(Sandy Bridge) idles around 20W(measured from wall using a cheap kill-a-watt meter), while another older HTPC I...
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    Low power, "good enough" performing HTPC?

    if you're looking for "low-power", then the 1155(sandy bridge or ivy bridge) options will hold a significant advantage over the older options which consume a lot more power, especially during idle times, which if its on 24/7 will be almost all the time.
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Ah ok, well, if that's the reasoning why you didn't want to go with snapshot RAID-based solutions, that makes more sense. It just didn't make sense when you were mentioning that you were looking to upgrade the parity disk to bigger disk in the future, and how much hassle it was going to create...
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    NAS + HTPC Help/Suggestions

    Just to toss in a couple other options if you haven't tried em, both of which are snapshot RAID options: SnapRAID and FlexRAID.
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Echoing Billy's thoughts on this as well...if you were "planning to throw in some 3TB drives in say a few months", I'm not sure any other RAID solution on the market will make it any easier on you, if you wanted to swap the 2TB parity disk with a larger one in the future. Based on my limited...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Again, you have flummoxed me! :) how do you choose a 3TB drive for parity, if you only have physically have 2TB drives?
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Not sure what you mean by a con being that "you have to choose the larger disk for parity(today's larger may not be tomorrow's larger)"? You want to choose a smaller disk for parity? If you decide to replace the parity drive with a larger one, all you would have to do is copy the parity data...
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    Please evaluate my NAS solution for home use

    Have you considered Flexraid, which is pretty much snapraid with drive pooling using a GUI interface?
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    Media Server #3

    Or look into setting up snapshot raid with either snapraid or flexraid, if the data in your collection doesn't change much.
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