Home Media Setup
| TV #1- Samsung 52" 1080p 120Hz LCD TV - LN52A650 | TV #2 - Toshiba 26" 720P Widescreen - 26DF56 |
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| Speakers- SAMSUNG HT-Z410 5.1 CH Home Theater System w/ 5 DVD Changer | Connected to the network running XBMC with an Original Xbox and HD Component Cables. |
| Protected by the same 750VA APC Battery Backup MediaPC is on | Protected by a Energizer 450VA Battery Backup |
| PC1 - MediaPC Running XBMC on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty | PC2 NAS- Running on FreeNAS Full 0.7RC1 |
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| Asus P5k WS Motherboard | Intel SC5000 Server Chassis |
| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz 65w Processor | Dual Intel Pentium III 1Ghz Processors |
| ZEROtherm BTF90 Silent UFO CPU Cooler | 2GB ECC Ram |
| Thermaltake Toughpower 650W Modular 80% Power Supply | 4gb Transcend 300x CF card |
| Syba SD-CF-2IDE-U Ultra IDE to CF | |
| MSI N9800GT 512M OC GeForce 9800 GT 512MB | 8- Western Digital Caviar 500GB (WD5000AAKB-00YSA0) w/ 16mb Cache IDE |
| 4gb (2 x2GB) Mushkin DDR2 1066 Dual Channel Ram | 2- 3ware 7500-8 PCI-X RAID Controllers |
| 1- Seagate ES.2 500GB w/ 32MB Cache SATA 3Gb/s Perpendicular recording drive | 2- Linksys EG1032 Gigabit NICs |
| 4 - Seagate Barracuda 750GB w/ 32MB Cache SATA 3Gb/s Drives | |
| 3ware 9550SX-4 PCI-X RAIDController | |
| pcHDTV HD-5500 | |
Harddrives: This server is setup with the 4-750GB SATA drives on the 3ware RAID controller in a RAID-5 Array totaling 2.05TB. The 500GB SATA is for boot + mythtv captures. |
Harddrives: This FreeNAS server is setup with 4 - 500gb drives on each 3ware controller in a RAID-5 setup. Each array ends up being 1.3TB |
| For Audio: The optical port on the motherboard is hooked directly to my Samsung Receiver. For video: I use a monster DVI -> HDMI Cable. Backup: This MediaPC + TV is hooked to APC 750VA Battery Backup. Software:This server runs the latest linuxport of XBMC, and the latest build of MythTV. |
Backup: Computer is hooked up to a CyberPower 585VA Backup and has about a 10 minute runtime. |
| Overall: All of the hardware worked pretty much out of the box with Jaunty. Previously was running 8.04 and required some patches (mainly alsa to get to work with hda_intel spdif connector which caused a nightmare with cx88_alsa for the DMA bus on pcHDTV HD-5500 capture card). | Overall: FreeNAS has been nothing but rock solid. Had it running for almost a year before I had to shutdown to replace a dying disk in my RAID array. |