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<blockquote data-quote="porky996t" data-source="post: 840323" data-attributes="member: 75318">[USER=111675]elsmandino[/USER]In the immortal words of Mavis Riley from Coronation Street - I don't really knowWhat I am thinking of doing is transferring my HDD's from the HTPC in the lounge. I want to be able to remotely access the server and set it up to convert my files to .m4v - so something relatively powerful that could make short work of this would be useful. I have 4Gb of 800Mhz RAM already knocking about - and would need to have about 7 or 8 SATA plugs for the HDD's. Should I put an SSD in there for the OS? - Would I get the benefit? Obviously as it would be used without a screen (except for setting up) something with a built on graphics would suffice.So far those are my only thoughts on it - as it will be situated in my basement, noise doesn't really matter.Should I put a Gigabit network in?? Any thoughts.M.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="porky996t, post: 840323, member: 75318"] [USER=111675]elsmandino[/USER] In the immortal words of Mavis Riley from Coronation Street - I don't really know What I am thinking of doing is transferring my HDD's from the HTPC in the lounge. I want to be able to remotely access the server and set it up to convert my files to .m4v - so something relatively powerful that could make short work of this would be useful. I have 4Gb of 800Mhz RAM already knocking about - and would need to have about 7 or 8 SATA plugs for the HDD's. Should I put an SSD in there for the OS? - Would I get the benefit? Obviously as it would be used without a screen (except for setting up) something with a built on graphics would suffice. So far those are my only thoughts on it - as it will be situated in my basement, noise doesn't really matter. Should I put a Gigabit network in?? Any thoughts. M. [/QUOTE]

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