Thank you all for helping me out. some more questions-
1. What kind of boot time with WOL can I expect in a typical setup say with same hardware that Tomm is using. I am really concerned about power consumption so would like to shutdown the unraid server after 10min of inactiveity.. Up here in Houston, TX its around 16cents/KW..Is it possible to have such setup with Meedio so that when I press Play for DVD, WOL command gets sent to unRaid server. After 10 min of inactivity (after movie), unRaid shuts down automatically. Possible???
2. Can I have more than 1 Network card with this ASUS mobo..Say the Intel Pro Gigabit card..I attach one to network via a router and the other one to HTPC direclty for faster read/write.
3. This one is dumb...Promise Sata II cards are PCI interface with max throughput of 150MB/s and Sata II is 300MB/s. So with the addon card to increase sata II interface I am not getting the max performace. Am i missing something....
Regards, Shaurya