January 3, 201313 yr Please help me...I'm having writers block (but with technology). I feel like I have enough of the makings to make a really good system but cant make my mind up on what direction I should go. RAID? Unraid? Use my gaming desktop as my server? Run a VM on my desktop as a server? I'd hate to lose my desktop for a server only because I feel like its a bit of overkill but I'll do it if its really my only way and I couldnt/shouldnt run VM's for a server, etc. I just want a media server and be able to run XBMC on my network at my house and use a PVR using my HR Prime. Here's my goods! Desktop: Thermaltake Case http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?C=1407&ID=1852#Tab1 QuadCore AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 965, 3716 MHz (18.5 x 201) Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 (3 PCI, 1 PCI-E x1, 3 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR3 DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394) Motherboard Chipset AMD 790FX, AMD K10 System Memory 20480 MB (DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM) DIMM1: G Skill F3-1333C9-8GAO 8 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM DIMM2: G Skill F3-1333C9-8GAO 8 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM DIMM3: G Skill F3-12800CL7-2GBRH 2 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM DIMM4: G Skill F3-12800CL7-2GBRH 2 GB DDR3-1333 DDR3 SDRAM Disk Drive WDC WD20EURS-63Z9B1 ATA Device (2000 GB, SATA-II) Disk Drive INTEL SSDSA2CW160G3 ATA Device (160 GB, SATA-II) Disk Drive ST3000DM001-9YN166 ATA Device (3000 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III) Disk Drive ST31500341AS ATA Device (1500 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II) HP Slimline (from 2008): AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ 2.6GHz (65W) Dual Core processor with 2000MT/s (mega transfers/second) and socket AM2 ATSC and NTSC built in HDTV tuner with FM tuner 2GB PC2-5300 MB/sec 240 pin, DDR2 SDRAM installed, upgradeable to 4GB (2 memory slots) 500GB SATA 3G (3.0 Gb/sec) 7200 rpm hard drive 16X DVD± R/RW 12X RAM ±R DL LightScribe SATA optical drive Wireless LAN 802.11 b/g with integrated 10/100 Base-T networking interface TV tuner card with GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 chipset 6 USB 2.0 ports (2 front, 4 rear) Dell Studio laptop: Processor 2.2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo RAM 4 GB DDR2 Hard Drive 320 GB Graphics Coprocessor Radeon HD 4570 Chipset Brand ATI Card Description Radeon HD 4570 Graphics Card Ram Size 512 MB Number of USB 2.0 Ports 3 I have 2 more Xbox 360's that I could use WMC if needed. I'm willing to do whatever at this point, I just need to get on a track and follow it. I've been racking my brain for days on this and feel like I havent gotten anywhere. Thank you so much...I'm running out of options here. I'll start building something then stop and try something different.
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