So I have this old HTPC from I dont know, maybe 2006 or so but unused in at least 10years. It's missing the door that covered the DVD drive....
but I dug it out of storage to see how many hdd's would fit in it. To my surprise it appears that you can mount 4-6 hard drives in here!
I'm thinking about replacing the motherboard and processor and adding a stack of hdd's to set up in raid.
What do you guys think? Would you convert this into basically a nas/media server?
This is a budget build so no $750 video card or nothing like that....I want things that will run fairly cool, last a long time staying very stable, can stay on all the time.
I will install my music here and run something like Audirvarna, Jriver. I will use dlna as well as raid.....do I need a special version of windows to run raid? Should I do something besides windows? I'm thinking windows because that's all Audirvarna runs on and I know it best. But maybe something else that's free like Lunix would be more stable to stay on 24/7?
I know a guy with four 6TB HGST 7200rpm drives with 128MB cache that that I can get for like $250 total. I may snatch those up.
Itll need a motherboard with wifi, at least gigabit lan, hdmi, USB 3.0. I'll be using dlna to my stereo but I'd also like the ability to transmit high quality audio via some type of wired connection as well (I suppose it seems like everyone is doing USB audio now)....is there something to look at in computer hardware that helps it have high quality audio?
I'm in a planning phase so I'd LOVE to hear all your ideas. I've not been into computers in over 10 years so I'm behind. Especially regarding bringing audio system into the PC realm.
but I dug it out of storage to see how many hdd's would fit in it. To my surprise it appears that you can mount 4-6 hard drives in here!
I'm thinking about replacing the motherboard and processor and adding a stack of hdd's to set up in raid.
What do you guys think? Would you convert this into basically a nas/media server?
This is a budget build so no $750 video card or nothing like that....I want things that will run fairly cool, last a long time staying very stable, can stay on all the time.
I will install my music here and run something like Audirvarna, Jriver. I will use dlna as well as raid.....do I need a special version of windows to run raid? Should I do something besides windows? I'm thinking windows because that's all Audirvarna runs on and I know it best. But maybe something else that's free like Lunix would be more stable to stay on 24/7?
I know a guy with four 6TB HGST 7200rpm drives with 128MB cache that that I can get for like $250 total. I may snatch those up.
Itll need a motherboard with wifi, at least gigabit lan, hdmi, USB 3.0. I'll be using dlna to my stereo but I'd also like the ability to transmit high quality audio via some type of wired connection as well (I suppose it seems like everyone is doing USB audio now)....is there something to look at in computer hardware that helps it have high quality audio?
I'm in a planning phase so I'd LOVE to hear all your ideas. I've not been into computers in over 10 years so I'm behind. Especially regarding bringing audio system into the PC realm.
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