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<blockquote data-quote="Dansta" data-source="post: 222531" data-attributes="member: 26986"><p>Hi.</p><p></p><p>The setup I use is a living room PC with an 80GB drive for the OS and music and a 160GB drive for recorded stuff. I also have a second more powerful PC with 6 hard drives in my study that doubles up as media storage as well as general use, etc, etc. Although they are only communicating through a wireless G gateway, I find I can stream AVIs as well as raw DVR-MS files from one to the other with no problem.</p><p></p><p>Having the 160GB drive in the lounge PC means that the freshly recorded stuff can stay on that PC. That way it does not matter if the study PC is off as the recent recordings will be in the lounge and the study PC is on until bedtime unless I'm transcoding to AVIs (transcoding by the study PC pulling from the lounge PC using the fab Mediacoder).</p><p> </p><p>Originally I had a 4 HDD setup in the lounge and a Pentium D but this got so hot that I had to use 2 case fans (an input and an exhaust). It was quite noisy! Now a humble P4 640 suffices although I plan to change to a MODT board (I have an Asus N4L-VM-DH bought on the cheap but that seems to only work with a PSU not compatible with my case).</p><p></p><p>I did consider setting up a Home Server or something like that but I decided that it was not worth the expense to setup a Troll (PC under the stairs) when a general purpose XP system in the study powerful enough would do all I needed.</p><p></p><p>Good luck, Dansta.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dansta, post: 222531, member: 26986"] Hi. The setup I use is a living room PC with an 80GB drive for the OS and music and a 160GB drive for recorded stuff. I also have a second more powerful PC with 6 hard drives in my study that doubles up as media storage as well as general use, etc, etc. Although they are only communicating through a wireless G gateway, I find I can stream AVIs as well as raw DVR-MS files from one to the other with no problem. Having the 160GB drive in the lounge PC means that the freshly recorded stuff can stay on that PC. That way it does not matter if the study PC is off as the recent recordings will be in the lounge and the study PC is on until bedtime unless I'm transcoding to AVIs (transcoding by the study PC pulling from the lounge PC using the fab Mediacoder). Originally I had a 4 HDD setup in the lounge and a Pentium D but this got so hot that I had to use 2 case fans (an input and an exhaust). It was quite noisy! Now a humble P4 640 suffices although I plan to change to a MODT board (I have an Asus N4L-VM-DH bought on the cheap but that seems to only work with a PSU not compatible with my case). I did consider setting up a Home Server or something like that but I decided that it was not worth the expense to setup a Troll (PC under the stairs) when a general purpose XP system in the study powerful enough would do all I needed. Good luck, Dansta. [/QUOTE]
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