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I purchased some drives off of newegg 3tb hgst drives to be exact, found out they were refurbished. My mistake on not reading the ad, I understand this when a drive was tested it said it has ran for 19k hours, that concerns me. is this normal? I'm thinking of returning them. thoughts anyone?

I have all of my BluRays ripped with MakeMKV and was wondering if leaving them in this format is good with Plex Media Server, or should I just use handbrake and transcode them to MP4 as the same as my SD Movies. Which is the Best way to have them?

Good Evening All, I have an Intel DH77EB motherboard which is paired with an i7 3770 and 32gb of ram. The motherboard has dropped 1 sata port and now the video is going south. None of my local PC shops carry the 1155 motherboard any more and I really can't find one that I like on newegg as they...

Forgive me if this has been posted, I did a search and could not find. I have a Plex server, Roku's and IPads, I have a few movies that I have that I can no longer rip with AnyDVD so I started to use MakeMKV which plays the movies great on my PC using VLC player. the Blurays are pretty large...

Hello Everyone! I have a domain with about 200 users all over the US, in all but one location we have a Gigabit network with ample server storage. I just upgraded to Server 2012 R2 for all server and have a specific server for the users Home drives and folder redirection. My question is this...

I have been installing SSD's into laptops and have noticed that the update process in Windows 7 is taking forever now. The latest one that I have installed took over night to find all of the updates, Is anyone else having this problem? I am not installing Windows 10 just yet for our business,

I have to replace the current 500gb hard drive in my wife's laptop. I can get a 1tb mechanical for $99 or a 250gb SSD for the same price. is the SSD worth going to? then just pick up a 500gb for an external?

I recently upgraded to the latest version of Plex, now I am having an issue where Plex will see the media, add it to the TV Show list, but it will just say Episode 1, 2 etc. I have converted the shows, (Blu Ray Version of X-Files) with makemkv, then changed to MP4. once this is done I use media...

well I was wondering when it would happen, AnyDVD no longer works... from the Slysoft website: Due to recent regulatory requirements we have had to cease all activities relating to SlySoft Inc. We wish to thank our loyal customers/clients for their patronage over the years.

I just was given 2 identical older servers that have the following specs: Dual Xeon E5620 @ 2.4ghz 32gb ddr3 single channel S5520SC Intel Motherboard Intel SC5650 server chasis (tower model) Switching 570 Watt PSU I am currently using an i7 3770 and and intel board with an LSI raid card...

I have finally lost my patience with these people. I had a promotion that ended in September, no worries. I called and asked if they had any comparable plans, they told me that I could get one that had the basic channels. So just got my bill and it had gone up over 40$, I called and was told...

I am curious if a Ceton Infinitv 4 tuner can be used with an HD antenna. I am about to get rid of the cable and looking for something that will work with my existing gear and so I can record some local channels. if not then my other plan is just doing away with the HTPC and going strictly...

I currently have a SAS 9211-4i controller card that I was thinking of moving into my new media server. I have 4 2tb drives I was planning on using along with a montherboard that has 2 6gb/s ports on it. Also a 6tb drive already being used, thinking of getting another. is there a better card...

First I understand that separating out the HTPC and Server is a good idea, but I am just curious on how many people out there actually have an "all in one" system. My current setup is basically an all in one, however in the past I have gone overboard with a server with over 10 hard drives...

I'm curious, with all of the new streaming sites (amazon, netflix etc) how many out there still actually purchase DVD's for their collection? I am still buying all of the TV shows that I want, I'm currently on an 80's kick. Knight Rider, Alf, Street Hawk...

Greetings, I have a 2008 MacBook Unibody that I purchaced new. this thing is a powerhouse that keeps going. I have upgraded the HDD to a 500gb and the memory to 4gb. Currently I am carrying around two laptops and want to slim this down. I use the mac as I am familiar with it. The...

Greetings! I have a DH77E Intel board and getting a asrock b75m r2.0 on Monday. I just picked up an old mini display port pcie card (3 monitors) and was wanting to see if there is any way I can use the card and the onboard HDMI out to my TV at the same time. has anyone gotten this to work...

Hello Everyone! I could really use some guidance on selecting the components for a new HTPC. While I do have some parts I do not know if reusing them is a good thing due to age: What I have: i7-3770 16gb 1333 DDR 3 or 8gb 2000 (oc) 2 - 3tb hard drives with movies and tv shows ceton...

I have a DH77EB intel board, and while it is running decently at the moment I want to upgrade it and put it into a HTPC/Media Server combo. The CPU that I have is a i7-3770 and 16gb 1333mhz memory. I am hoping for another micro atx board with quite a few SATA ports. I am looking at this...

here is the layout: Avaya phone system installed in 2011, consisting of G430 and EM200, using Avaya IP 9650c phones, all connected to dedicated Extreme PoE gigabit switch, which is pushing out 378 watts of power. Building renovated within the past year and half, all new cat6 drops, 4 per...

I am having a heck of a time with a new install of Windows 7. When I right click I get the little blue spinning wheel and after about 2 seconds it will open the right click menu. for my machine being extremely beefy it is just running extremely sluggish specs: motherboard - intel DH77EB CPU...

I have a choice of CPU for a new HTPC, an i3 (model unknown atm) i5-2500 or i7-2600. All CPU are Sandy Bridge. Are these still a good cpu to use? if so what motherboard would you recommend for them. I currently have an intel board that will work for all three, onboard HDMI. I would prefer to...

As I stated in my previous post has the htpc time passed, I am completely downsizing to just one htpc/media server and moving to tablets and other mobile devices utilizing Plex. this is what I am curious about upgrading my current rig with more power or leave well enough alone. Current rig...

I just purchased an ipad 4 with lightning connector, I am connecting it to my tv via the lightning to hdmi connector. What I am doing is streaming movies from my media box (htpc) to the ipad connected to tv. It starts off playing fine, then about a couple of minutes later it will lockup and...

With all of the streaming media boxes (apple TV, roku, etc) and services like iTunes, amazon prime, has the use for a HTPC come and gone? I know that there will be some that disagree, just to put it out there, I still own one, I have over 1500 movies on it, my music and pictures, but I find...

I have a consulting backpack that I carry with me everywhere, but lately it has become quite heavy, with the laptop, backup hdd, and other misc tools that I carry with me. I would be curious to know just how many of you have started using an Ipad or similar tablet in place of a laptop.

Hello All, Just had to rebuild my HTPC that I had setup back in 2010. put the latest version of Media Browser on the system, the Media Browser Windows media center plugin and the CCCP codec pack. My regular MP4's play fine in Media Browser, and my Blu Ray Rips in MP4 play great in Windows...

hello again! I am down to my last Hard drive encoding movies! but I have one question with subtitles. I just purchased thor the dark world and ripped it just fine, and encoded it also just fine. the issue is that when the dark elves are speaking on the dvd there are subtitles, but in my...

I have just started my second Hard Drive encode with Handbrake, and as most movies are going rather smoothly, albeit over an hour for conversions everything is going well for the most part. now with that being said, some movies take only about 4 seconds to rip, and do not play. Red 2, Escape...

I am re-encoding all of my Movies / TV shows to MP4 using handbrake. all is working out on that front using High Profile for Movies and Normal for TV shows. the issues are with my blu rays. I can get a great video using the High profile and RF 20 but I do not get any sound what so ever. I...

I have successfully setup the plex media server, I am able to connect to the server with both the plex media center and myplex connection from inside my home network. When I connect to my guest network and also from other outside networks, I lose all connections thru myplex. I do have the...

I currently have over 1500+ movie, tv and blu rays spread out over 3 3tb and 3 3tb hard drives. I still have over 1000 movies to go to move my entire collection to my computer, but I am running out of hard drive space fast. I can not at this time afford more hard drives so I am looking at...

Hello All, I have just purchased a new laptop with windows 8 installed. While I am liking the laptop I do not have the ability to watch my recorded tv programs that I have on my htpc. I have windows 7 pro with a ceton 4 tuner card and tons of recorded tv. I do not have the windows 8 media...

Greetings I stated in an earlier post that I am starting to use Handbrake to re-encode my movies for my tablets. I have over 20tb of movies,tv shows and Blu Rays. I have started on my tv shows which I have over 4tb worth. Bringing them down in size and keeping the quality is important to me...

I currently have over 20tb of movies residing on 7 3tb hard drives. I am now wanting to use my vizio tablet to watch movies so I have downloaded the program handbrake and have re-encoded alot of them into mp4 format. while this works for the tablet is the mkv format better to use? these are just...

I have been working on getting all of my media from 8 different pc's onto one pc and pretty much have it completed. I had a Areca 1210 running Raid 5 across 4 2tb HDD. then I had 4 2tb JBOD in the same box. I had ran out of room on that Raid set so I just bought 3 3tb Seagates and moved all...

Hello Everyone, its pretty much as the title says, here is my situation I currently have a nice little box running, I won't call it a true server but I use it at home to share files across my network. specs are: Asus M4A88TD-V Evo AMD Phenom X6 1075 3.0 8GB Memory Areca ARC-1210 4...

I just picked up a SSD 120GB drive for free so I am thinking about putting it in my HTPC. this is my first go round with them so I don't know much about them, I was told to NEVER defrag them and also use a secondary drive for data and such. do they make a big difference in these machines? My...

I just ripped my first Blu Ray a few days ago, and it seems like kind of a hassle. This Blu Ray was over 44gb, then I need to add a program to mount the ISO. I have a decent Blu Ray player so I don't know if it even worth it. I have currently 110 Blu Rays, so that is alot of storage. How many...

I am looking to change over my phone system at work to a VOIP System. Basically I have Fiber that handles my Data needs (125MB/75MB) I have a server that I have been using as my sandbox at the moment. I have the 3cx PBX system and softphones running, and its been rock solid so far. I have this...