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    mediaservers

    Just curious what other people are running, here is mine.









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    10x 2tb in jbod everything on those drives is replaceable, so no point with raid.
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    nice, whar was the damage to build if I may ask
    Seemed like a good idea at the time

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    Nice set-up mate. Got more disks in there than a Google server room.
    Mine is a pure silent simple water-cooled unit, with about 2TB of space. I run a game-capture card straight in it purely for recording foxtel stuff direct which takes up heck of a lot of room. That's mainly what mines there for. The rest of media I leech straight off my main rig.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SonOf View Post
    nice, whar was the damage to build if I may ask
    Most of the parts where sourced from America, probably 1600$ all up

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    not bad, cheers
    Seemed like a good idea at the time

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    Nice mate. I just run two NAS drives, one with 4 x 2tb Drives (soon to be upgraded to 4tb drives) and another 2 bay jobbie for my torrent needs.
    Who's up for some fault finding too? I know its network related but can't pin point it. On the odd occassion when watching movies from the NAS on one or both of my HTPC's the movie gets real choppy. If I change the jumbo frame setting on the network card it goes. But then comes back say the next time or after when you watch another movie (not consistent on when it will happen). Its all hard wired with CAT5E so its not wireless. I'm using an Asus 8 port router (GX-D1081)to connect it all too. Something is holding it up. But I don't know what.

    Cheers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mudski View Post
    Nice mate. I just run two NAS drives, one with 4 x 2tb Drives (soon to be upgraded to 4tb drives) and another 2 bay jobbie for my torrent needs.
    Who's up for some fault finding too? I know its network related but can't pin point it. On the odd occassion when watching movies from the NAS on one or both of my HTPC's the movie gets real choppy. If I change the jumbo frame setting on the network card it goes. But then comes back say the next time or after when you watch another movie (not consistent on when it will happen). Its all hard wired with CAT5E so its not wireless. I'm using an Asus 8 port router (GX-D1081)to connect it all too. Something is holding it up. But I don't know what.

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    Can you get it to do it?? ie using the network. I know on my network, if im streaming a movie at full hd and someone else starts using the network it will drop out. Remember you are moving huge amounts of data to watch quality tv/movies. What player are you using also? Probably not related, more curious.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lhurley View Post
    Can you get it to do it?? ie using the network. I know on my network, if im streaming a movie at full hd and someone else starts using the network it will drop out. Remember you are moving huge amounts of data to watch quality tv/movies. What player are you using also? Probably not related, more curious.
    Strange this is it hasn't always done it. I think its bottlenecking in the network somewhere. As when watching using VLC when it happens the progress bar on the bottom of the screen is usually blue when its fine, when it happens it turns to orange and move along the bar to the right( hard to explain) and then its fine, until a few seconds later it does it again.
    I actually haven't tried on my gaming pc, to see if it does it...Both HTPCs are very capable of watching full HD rips too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mudski View Post
    Strange this is it hasn't always done it. I think its bottlenecking in the network somewhere. As when watching using VLC when it happens the progress bar on the bottom of the screen is usually blue when its fine, when it happens it turns to orange and move along the bar to the right( hard to explain) and then its fine, until a few seconds later it does it again.
    I actually haven't tried on my gaming pc, to see if it does it...Both HTPCs are very capable of watching full HD rips too.
    Im not doubting the capabilities, just sounds to me like the network is struggling. Could possibly try having a direct link to the server/s to remove and interference then go from there?

    Annoying stuff like this is why i never pursued a career in IT
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    Sounds to me your problem is in your network hardware, Copy a large file from your nas box on both your htpc's at the same time what are the transfers speeds?

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