Hi all!

[David Fawcett]

Well it's funny you should say that cause I just finished a weekend project
just like that for my house mate.

Essentially she had a drive hiccup - she was running NTFS on that drive
(minor FAT issue that chkdsk fixed) and she suddenly realised that she had
over 2TB of media and no backups.

I didn't want to build a whole new file server for her (enough boxes in the
house already) so I upgraded my existing HTPC box.

Here is what i ended up going with:

Software:
Ubuntu Desktop x64 10.4
XBMC http://xbmc.org/
ZFS-Fuse
SAMBA/NFS

Hardware:
4x1.5 TB hard drives running in ZFS RaidZ. So in total 4.5 TB striped and
mirrored.
1x120 GB hard drive to run the OS, ZFS and XMBC
4GB RAM
Intel E6500 2.96 GHZ Core2 Duo
Nvidia 8600 GT

Works a treat, runs great even playing 1080p videos although that does push
the system so I'd probably recommend getting a better CPU and GPU if your
budget extends that far.


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Ryan Creagh <rcreagh631 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, lets just say I want to run a pure media server (no app data)I
> want to be able to run orb (i understand thats coming to linux soon)
> and stuff like that. But since my last post I have found that the box
> I aimed to use was... well rooted. Not worth fixing considering what I
> aimed to do.
>
> So my next idea was something like a 2TB HDD with my media ONLY on it
> (perhaps a partition off 100gb for data back up of ISOs or something
> if possible) and then have dual boot mode where I can either use win 7
> or run a media server.
>
> I understand that with most of what I am trying to do, I can do in
> WIN7, I enjoy having a weekend project like this.
>
> (WIN7 and all my games / progs would be on another 500gb HDD, where
> would ubuntu go if this would work?)
>
> On Jun 1, 5:46 pm, David Fawcett <omniw... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Sorry Ryan are you talking about running your box as a media center?
> >
> > If you just want to run it like a file server/desktop the only software
> > you'll need is SAMBA.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Ryan Creagh <rcreagh... at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > Mainly Pics, Videos and music. but I will have ISO backups of games
> > > and what not as well. Let's just assume pics, videos and music. I aim
> > > to add DVR for free to air TV (digital of course)
> >
> > > Any suggestions on software?
> >
> > > On Jun 1, 9:01 am, Tom Sparks <tom_a_spa... at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> > > >  --- On Tue, 1/6/10, Ryan Creagh
> > > >  <rcreagh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > I aim to use the ubuntu box for media streaming to
> > > > > several
> > > > > > windows 7
> > > > > > PCs and a xbox 360. As far as I can tell, I won't have
> > > > > any
> > > > > > issues.
> > > > > > Anyone beg to differ?
> >
> > > >  What type of media streaming are you going to do?
> >
> > > > tom
> >
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