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Yeah the Buffalo Terrastation does. The Yellow Machine is only 10/100. Honestly I can't tell the difference when watching my movies over a Gigabit network, the YM is the only 10/100 on it.
 
Weazmeister said:
Yeah the Buffalo Terrastation does. The Yellow Machine is only 10/100. Honestly I can't tell the difference when watching my movies over a Gigabit network, the YM is the only 10/100 on it.
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You wont be able to considering that the media box you are using for your tv interface is only 10.100. However, you will notice it if you are streaming to multiple boxes at the same time, but thats rare and your server hardware has to handle it.

I'm using the GoVideo DS2740's Network DVD players and they work great. Have you tried diffrent file types with the media lounge or just one type? I'm curious if it works as good as the go video system because from what I've experienced with it and other players it's hands down the best thing out there... but I'm always open to test new waters because there might be something better out there.
 
piako, man, you gotta do somethign with thos SATA wires up by where they connect to the controller card.... why are then hanging like that???
 
^ I've had some problems with these uv sata cables cracking around the connector area

i used a hardware anchor to get them to come off nice and easy and then connect to the controller to reduce fatigue on the controller

if i have time later tonite ill tidy up that area

have u had probs with this type of thing?
 
Can we get some posts now on electricity usage and bills? Wow! Color me impressed folks.

Robert
 
Teh File Server.

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This is an Intel SGH2 motherboard w/1x Xeon 2.0ghz processor, 512mb of ECC DDR2100, and 10 hard drives.

4x 120gb IDE drives in raid 5 (336gb)
5x 250gb SATA drives in raid5 (931gb)
1x 10gb boot drive
 
File Server now promoted to 2nd Gaming Rig with the installation my new Visiontek X800 Pro!


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And yes I take this to lans along with my main gaming rig.
 
kuyaglen: Wow sweet setup you've got there! What's your'e total diskspace? Im to lazy to count myself :D
 
I'll have pics of the rig as soon as I find my camera :)

My media server.

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1x 120GB Seagate PATA
1x 300GB Seagate PATA
4x 400GB Seagate PATA (spanned)
2x 400GB Western Digial 400GB SATA-II

~2.8TB

I've moved stuff around and have about 140GB free on the spanned drive and took the 2 400's off line for now till I need the space.

I've ripped all 330+ of my DVD to it. It's nice having my own 'on-demand' movie service :)
 
This is my basically all around rig (gaming, Internet, Movies, Music), I am thinking of making a storage system one day hook up through network so I can watch movies of that instead of my gaming rig, I think yous know what I am saying.





800GB (766GB Formatted), Thinking of buying a 400gb next, equals to 1200GB (1146GB Formatted)

Yes I know its not that many but its getting there, and yes I know its dirty :D.
 
I need to get some pics of the fileshare I helped make for my school. 18 40 gig drives in a RAID :D
 
RHollister said:
completly offtopic and maybe wrong, but without knowing what motherboard that is I would say that you are not running dual channel. I think you need to move that second memory stick into the light blue slot.

nice HD setup by the way.
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some motherboards it dosen't matter.Like mine i have my memory mods. right next to each other and they are in dual channel.
 
Mine again with the 400GB HD I mention in my last post 1.1Terabyte of formatted HD space :D.

 
Here my a-lott-of-hd's machine.

7x320GB=2.24TB

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a total of no less than 9 120mm fans are installed to keep it cool
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those are 3mm thick aluminum plates, a little extra cooling for the HD's
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And making room for more ;) ;)
 
holycrap thats a huge mobo.. nice case too with all those fans. kickass
 
Well, it will get bigger :D
i've bought the same case extra second hand,
and will build them together to make 1 big (huge) case.
the space will be filled with more, more, MORE, MORE!, MORE!!!, MORE!!!!! :D :D hd's
 
I've got 7 disks in mine, 3 in the cage, 3 just chillin' and one sitting up in the 5 1/4" bays

1368Gib total

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Heres my collection

160 Sata Seagate
160 Sata Maxtor
200 Sata Maxtor
500 Sata Western Digital
500 Sata Western Digital

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80 IDE Western Digital
120 IDE Western Digital

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Okay so the technology is old but it still works...
I bought the Stakka strictly for storage of music and family photo scans (over 50 years worth). It's running an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and a Prescott 3.2 with 4G RAM and 12 WD Caviar 250G SATA drives (recently upgraded from IDEs) and 1 75G Raptor:
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phynigan said:
Okay so the technology is old but it still works...
I bought the Stakka strictly for storage of music and family photo scans (over 50 years worth). It's running an Asus P4C800-E Deluxe and a Prescott 3.2 with 4G RAM and 12 WD Caviar 250G SATA drives (recently upgraded from IDEs) and 1 75G Raptor:
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Awesome setup! I'm doing the exact same thing to my CM Stacker right now. I'm expecting the additional 2 HDD caddies in a few days to start cramming my drives in. BTW, what PSU are you using for all those drives? Any problems so far?
 
I had originally installed the ENERMAX Liberty ELT620AWT but after about 5 months the fuse blew. I got a replacement fuse from ENERMAX and pulled the PS out to test with the new fuse and after about ten seconds, it caught fire (BTW I'm a certified tech)! Needless to say the replacement PS I received is sitting in its box as a last ditch backup. Right now I'm running the OCZ GameXStream 700W supply without issue. The only complaint I have about this supply is the lights, don't' need em, don't want em, just not my "thing".
 
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The four 250GB drives on the right have since been replaced with 500GB drives, so I have a total of eight 500GB drives, plus a 160GB boot drive. There are 2 separate 1.5TB RAID-5 arrays, so in total I have 3.16TB usable drive space.

Full Inside view:

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Outside view:
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1.6 terabytes

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1.45 terabytes

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Fin
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whew! took more time than it looks!



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Totals are 3068 gigabytes of total space. advertised is 3400 gigabytes of course.

5 400 gb 7200.10 sata seagate drives
2 250 gb 7200.8 sata seagate drives
2 400 gb 7200.10 ide seagate drives

:).

The psu is a enermax 485 watt active pfc. :)
 
200GB Maxtor IDE
400GB Samsung S-ATA
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600GB

80GB WD IDE (running in my Win98 PC)

500GB Samsung will follow soon with my new pc :)
 
seagate 80+160 gb sata2ncq
samsung 80 gb pata...just three disks but 250*2 seagate coming soon ;)

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My humble CM Stacker setup...
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10 Drives right now with room for another 2 in the drive caddies and one more in it's own frame for a potential total of 13 drives. I keep thinking I'm going to do more cleanup work than I already have but, then again, I don't know how much longer I'm going to bother keeping all those IDE drives in my system...
 
billy01 said:
seagate 80+160 gb sata2ncq
samsung 80 gb pata...just three disks but 250*2 seagate coming soon ;)

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where can one get (buy) extra "bays" or "internal enclosures" like this? What's the proper term to be searching for? I don't need anything fancy, but would like to have all my drives screwed in and stable, instead of one or two dangling like D-EJ915 has :)
 
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