Hi guys,
Well, my old PC is now around 7 years old, so I think its time for a wee upgrade.
I am looking to build a new system, with the main emphasis on storage and streaming.
My house has cat5 wired throughout, and I have been using my main pc as more of a server recently, steaming my media (music and videos) to my hardware elsewhere in the house.
So I currently have 3 TB of storage (1x1TB + 1x2TB HDD's). But I as I buy a LOT of Bluerays (around 100+ and counting daily), I would like to be able to rip these and store on my system to be streamed as and when required.
I have also just ripped some of my music collection (@500 CD's so far, still got around 8000-10000 records and a few hundred more cd's to go). They are all ripped to 320 kbps at the moment, but I am thinking of just ripping it all to FLAC now, and put the original discs into storage, and extract MP3's from the FLACs.
So with all this in mind, it will be quite memory hungry. So I will need room for multiple HDD's and room for expansion as I progress through my collections.
So far as other PC specs go, I am a pretty basic user. I will need the ability to stream media, which I am finding easy enough with Windows 7 Ultimate. I already have basic speakers for listening to stuff, but dont require surround or anything for the PC. I don't do real gaming, mostly just surfing the web, and occasional facebook games. One of my systems did crash out when playing some tower defence game on FB though, so would like at least some ability graphics wise to cope. I would thing somewhere around £50-£80 on GPU would suffice though.
I am not planning on burning Blue ray at the moment, but thats not to say it wont happen in the future, so would quite like a BR burner. I will at least be ripping BR's though, so do need at least a drive capable of this.
I will use office documents and the like for work also though. But I guess pretty much any basic system will cope with this though?
Okay. So thats my requirements. As I have 3TB already, I would quite like to double this, so a single 3TB drive would suffice for the moment. I will need the ability to add the 2 drives I currently have, as well as possibly add in another 3TB drive in the future once I have filled this one. So I am looking for 4 HDD capability minimum. I would also like 2 optical drives, but a simple dvd burner will suffice for the second drive.
What would you guys recommend? I would like to keep the budget low as possible for this, and with a preferably low power consumption pc as I will be keeping it on most of the time. Stability is also important here. I also have to get a new monitor, but something sub £100 will do me.
What would you guys recommend for such a set-up?
Well, my old PC is now around 7 years old, so I think its time for a wee upgrade.
I am looking to build a new system, with the main emphasis on storage and streaming.
My house has cat5 wired throughout, and I have been using my main pc as more of a server recently, steaming my media (music and videos) to my hardware elsewhere in the house.
So I currently have 3 TB of storage (1x1TB + 1x2TB HDD's). But I as I buy a LOT of Bluerays (around 100+ and counting daily), I would like to be able to rip these and store on my system to be streamed as and when required.
I have also just ripped some of my music collection (@500 CD's so far, still got around 8000-10000 records and a few hundred more cd's to go). They are all ripped to 320 kbps at the moment, but I am thinking of just ripping it all to FLAC now, and put the original discs into storage, and extract MP3's from the FLACs.
So with all this in mind, it will be quite memory hungry. So I will need room for multiple HDD's and room for expansion as I progress through my collections.
So far as other PC specs go, I am a pretty basic user. I will need the ability to stream media, which I am finding easy enough with Windows 7 Ultimate. I already have basic speakers for listening to stuff, but dont require surround or anything for the PC. I don't do real gaming, mostly just surfing the web, and occasional facebook games. One of my systems did crash out when playing some tower defence game on FB though, so would like at least some ability graphics wise to cope. I would thing somewhere around £50-£80 on GPU would suffice though.
I am not planning on burning Blue ray at the moment, but thats not to say it wont happen in the future, so would quite like a BR burner. I will at least be ripping BR's though, so do need at least a drive capable of this.
I will use office documents and the like for work also though. But I guess pretty much any basic system will cope with this though?
Okay. So thats my requirements. As I have 3TB already, I would quite like to double this, so a single 3TB drive would suffice for the moment. I will need the ability to add the 2 drives I currently have, as well as possibly add in another 3TB drive in the future once I have filled this one. So I am looking for 4 HDD capability minimum. I would also like 2 optical drives, but a simple dvd burner will suffice for the second drive.
What would you guys recommend? I would like to keep the budget low as possible for this, and with a preferably low power consumption pc as I will be keeping it on most of the time. Stability is also important here. I also have to get a new monitor, but something sub £100 will do me.
What would you guys recommend for such a set-up?
