<quote who="Kevin Shackleton"> > There are some cases around that are neat enough to hide in the lounge > (should I want to do media) and will take 6 * 3.5" drives eg Silverstone > LC17. Enough for a new RAID array and a legacy drive or two.
I've got the LC16 (very similar) for the same purpose -- these are *GREAT* cases. Really slick. Mine is black, sits in a black Ikea TV stand, with a 46" screen on top. Provides server functions and runs MythTV. Does not look out of place in the loungeroom *at all*. > Any thoughts on a mobo that's clearly at the low power end of the spectrum > but can still keep the drives and network humming? I wanted something fairly grunty for combined media and virtualisation, so I went with a Gigabyte 965G-DS4 and a Core 2 Duo. I've turned as much power saving stuff on as possible. It certainly doesn't run loud or hot -- inside the box is ~45°C, while each core is sitting at ~35°C atm, compared to my laptop at ~70.0°C! I haven't actually measured what it pulls. It's probably a bit ugly. As long as you have a decent video card, and you're not planning to do any virtualisation or other CPU-hefty tasks (including transcoding), you can get away with a vastly less powerful CPU. Perhaps one of the VIA thingies. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "Well, you know us usability folks... We like to believe that the two aren't mutually exclusive." - Calum Benson on power and cleanliness -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
