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 Post subject: Re: Best HTPC Case?
PostPosted: Sun 11-29-2009 5:48PM 
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not for the htpc, but on my main pc i use bitlocker

edit: plus it's just awesome to use win server 2008 r2 for free. measurably awesomer than just getting a free desktop O/S.

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not for the htpc, but on my main pc i use bitlocker


somebody is forgetting their XKCD. pay special attention to the alt-text: Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets. (Also, I would be hard-pressed to find that wrench for $5.)
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zeroluck wrote:
not for the htpc, but on my main pc i use bitlocker


somebody is forgetting their XKCD. pay special attention to the alt-text: Actual actual reality: nobody cares about his secrets. (Also, I would be hard-pressed to find that wrench for $5.)


You're totally right haha. It definately wasn't worth the two days it took to encrypt all the drives. Now it's me putting off another two days of my system chugging away to unencrypt it all before i move from this RC to the real release.

Where did you find that comic? It's awesome...

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PostPosted: Sun 11-29-2009 9:51PM 
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http://www.xkcd.com is pretty much required reading on this campus, as much so as is PhDcomics and Dilbert.

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http://www.xkcd.com is pretty much required reading on this campus, as much so as is PhDcomics and Dilbert.


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I would suggest making a separate fileserver and HTPC. On the file server run FreeNAS on a cheap USB stick, old hardware and a big case is all you really need, gigabit lan card is nice . Keep your raid arrays separate from your operating system whatever you decide to do. On the HTPC, keep it simple. A cheap graphics card that is DXVA supported is all that is really needed with a small HDD, personally, i would spring for a microatx board with onboard graphics and HDMI. KISS.


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or this guy, simplest htpc ever

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... _-83103234

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hey that's neat. i'm diggin the surround sound... cute.

I ended up buying with this http://bit.ly/6uOzqY htpc case: Review: http://bit.ly/8p9cNN

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It matches my Sony surround amp and its $119 free shipping and has 7 3.5" bays :)

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I would suggest making a separate fileserver and HTPC. On the file server run FreeNAS on a cheap USB stick, old hardware and a big case is all you really need, gigabit lan card is nice . Keep your raid arrays separate from your operating system whatever you decide to do. On the HTPC, keep it simple. A cheap graphics card that is DXVA supported is all that is really needed with a small HDD, personally, i would spring for a microatx board with onboard graphics and HDMI. KISS.


The board I have is a GeForce 8200 uATX board with onboard hdmi :)

Right now it just seems to make sense to use it as a fileserver as well... I mean, it's going to be a DVR anyway.

Anyone have any experience with nVidia MediaShield? I've used it once on a similar board with raid 0, but that's it. It seemed to work well, although I'm not sure how much faster it was in reality because it was a new build, and it was xp64 which is snappy on new hardware anyway.

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PostPosted: Sat 12-19-2009 3:01AM 
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OK so everything is in and I built the system. It's working quite well. I ordered http://bit.ly/G7adJ and am still waiting for that to get here. I'm pretty excited about having an accelerometer in my remote, maybe it's just me lol.

I ended up putting windows 7 pro msdnaa on it, and as of right now I'm not messing with the fileserver idea.

Two things about the case:

1. The drive bays are not flip down drive bays. They are actual aluminum bezels that you are supposed to attach to the drive tray with 3m double stick tape included. This is quite gay, and I'm not sure who thought of this, but they're an idiot. It does work, but it's just a ridiculous idea.

2. After inspecting the case and actually doing an install, I determined that with minor modifications, this case can be made to hold 9 3.5 hard drives and 2 optical drives, or 10 and 1 optical drive. This is because the hard drive caddies have huge gaps between the lowest drive and the bottom of the case. All you'd have to do is drill nicely spaced screwholes and you're in business. I think I'm just going to use it as a boxee "box" as it were for the moment though, no extra hard drives yet.


overall, I recommend this case. I'm now working on streamlining all my media to show up in boxee...

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