Indeed, that would be a bit overkill in the living room. This would be a closet rackmount system, essentially the Home Media Server in these threads (updated with Sandy Bridge of course):
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=18816470#Media%20Storage%20Server:%20System:%2020%20HDD%20Rack-Mount%20System%20with%20Hot-Swapping http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?p=12248983#HMS The reason I want SB in it is because of the Quick Sync transcoding. All of my media is in native format (1080p for BluRay or 480p for DVD) mkvs but we have a lot of apple devices (iPhones and iPads) in the house. Being able to quickly transcode to the apple format or a more compact portable format is something we really need. And I'm concerned about the PCIe bandwidth because that's where the add-on cards for the HDDs are going. I'm going with unRAID instead of RAID. In our current setup, the rack is mounted in our A/V closet right next to the main home theater, so it also serves as the playback machine for the home theater. We have a separate Aspire Revo upstairs for playback. --------- Brian On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 9:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Why would you stack all those drives in your htpc? I keep all my drives > and real storage on a whs in a closet. 16 drives in the livingroom would > be too noisy to be useful. > Sent via BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Brian Weeden <[email protected]> > Sender: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 21:32:09 > To: [email protected]<[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]<[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [H] Review of 4 Sandy Bridge motherboards > > I was a bit bummed at the statement in the beginning about the differences > between the P67 and H67 versions. The P67 has overclocking and full PCIe > but can't use the video part of the SB chip. The H67 can use the video, but > has limited overclocking and limited PCIe. > > I was planning to put SB in my htpc box and I need both video and as much > PCIe bandwidth as I can get to support 16 drives. So this is a real bummer. > > ----------- > Brian > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 2011-01-08, at 9:22 PM, "Anthony Q. Martin" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Seems like the ASUS is the overall winner among those reviewers. Any one > disagree? > > > > Thanks for the link, Brian. > > > > On 1/8/2011 9:06 PM, Brian Weeden wrote: > >> http://techreport.com/articles.x/20190 > >> > >> ----------- > >> Brian > >> Follow Me [image: LinkedIn]<http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianweeden> > [image: > >> Twitter]<http://www.twitter.com/brianweeden> > >> >
