The Home Server Thread
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i second this notion. 945GC+ICH7 wins.
I just got a Intel Little Falls 2 board and it works like a charm.
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I built mine a couple of years back from some spare parts, works very nicely (obviously it's way overpowered for what it does):
-- 2.4GHz P4, 1.5GB RAM, GB LAN, onboard video.
-- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installed on small IDE drive.
-- 6x drives (4x 320GBs and 2x 750GBs) as software RAID5 with LVM on top and ext3 on top of that, which allows RAID5 with different-sized drives and no lost space.
-- Azureus for bittorrent.
-- Fuppes for serving video and music to Xbox 360 via upnp.
-- Samba, VNC, SSH, etc.
I used to have some tuner cards and MythTV in it a while back, but I've since moved on to Virgin and a V+ box, so they've gone. I wasn't wholly convinved by MythTV tbh - the main thing I really miss from it is having access to loads of disk space, and programming recordings online.
Hardware-wise, I used to have a 333MHz PII running as a RAID5 fileserver with bittorrent, and that worked just fine.
-- 2.4GHz P4, 1.5GB RAM, GB LAN, onboard video.
-- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installed on small IDE drive.
-- 6x drives (4x 320GBs and 2x 750GBs) as software RAID5 with LVM on top and ext3 on top of that, which allows RAID5 with different-sized drives and no lost space.
-- Azureus for bittorrent.
-- Fuppes for serving video and music to Xbox 360 via upnp.
-- Samba, VNC, SSH, etc.
I used to have some tuner cards and MythTV in it a while back, but I've since moved on to Virgin and a V+ box, so they've gone. I wasn't wholly convinved by MythTV tbh - the main thing I really miss from it is having access to loads of disk space, and programming recordings online.
Hardware-wise, I used to have a 333MHz PII running as a RAID5 fileserver with bittorrent, and that worked just fine.
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You can program recordings online. You've been able to do it with Myth for years now. 
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You can program recordings online. You've been able to do it with Myth for years now.
I meant V+ doens't let you program recordings online, whereas MythTV did...
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Ahh, the sentence does make more sense if I read it that way... 
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did you get fuppes working on opensolaris?
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My Server (still in software build)
CPU: Intel T5800 2.0 Ghz, stock hsf replaced with a zalman flower northbridge hs and silenx fan
Mobo: Commell LV-679
Ram: 4 Gigs of the OCZ stuff
HD: 3Tb of storage, serving movies, music, general files (will install twonky for PS3)
all in a Tranquil T2e case
average power consumption 43 watts using some generic reader
CPU: Intel T5800 2.0 Ghz, stock hsf replaced with a zalman flower northbridge hs and silenx fan
Mobo: Commell LV-679
Ram: 4 Gigs of the OCZ stuff
HD: 3Tb of storage, serving movies, music, general files (will install twonky for PS3)
all in a Tranquil T2e case
average power consumption 43 watts using some generic reader
Im using an Epia mini itx setup loaded with Amahi home server software , and it has just added the sabnzb as a plugin
Im using it to act as my dhcp server too and it is simply excellent
http://www.amahi.org/
Im using it to act as my dhcp server too and it is simply excellent
http://www.amahi.org/