Recent content by dorito777

Is there a forum or advice mechanism where I can get this information from? I don't want to drop hundreds of dollars on equipment that is either unnecessary or will harm my configuration.

Does anyone have any feedback on this or have a recommended forum I could post this on to get the help I need? I want to make sure I do this properly.

Here is what I was PLANNING to do and people can correct me if I am wrong. I was planning to purchase a large vertical TrippLite (or another recommended brand) power strip. I was planning on plugging this into the power conditioner and then plugging all of the components into the power strip...

I am going to be moving into my new home soon and wanted to get prepared for a server rack I have been putting together over the last few months. The rack is a large 42U server rack from Tripp Lite. So far, I have the following components in the rack: NETGEAR Orbi Whole Home Mesh WiFi System...

Well not really...the house is being built right now and the Lyriq home audio system is being added as an upgrade package to the home. It is a generic system and they are literally just setting it up for the single 3.5mm and wireless sources and the speakers/control panels themselves. The...

Not sure if this constitutes as a home theater, but if it is in the wrong location, just point me in the right direction. Although the title sounds simple, the configuration is a bit more complex. I have a very specific use case I would like to accomplish. I have a Lyriq home audio system being...

I am looking for recommendations for a server rack for my home theater. It will be a FreeNAS build using the following chassis: Supermicro 846BE16-R1K28B I am looking for something with a glass door or something along those lines. Something aesthetically pleasing. It will be tucked away in...

I did some research and I THINK my backplane is the SAS2-846EL, as described by https://www.supermicro.com/manuals/chassis/tower/SC846.pdf There is a lot of new terminology to me on here. There are 6 8087 ports available (Primary J0-J2 and Secondary J0-J2). You can use them for failover or...

Thanks! I am really excited about it. I can't wait to get it up and running. I was planning to have a single pool for everything with ZFS and FreeNAS. It will be primarily media, but I will use it for all purpose NAS as well. I plan to store pictures and documents and stuff like that on it...

Ok let me post an update and some questions on my configuration. Here is the parts list I ended up going with: Chassis - Supermicro 846BE16-R1K28B Motherboard - Supermicro MBD-X10SRH-CLN4F-O Memory - Crucial 16GB ECC RDIMM DDR4-2400 x2 (32GB) CPU - Intel Xeon E5-1640 v4 CPU Cooler - Noctua...

Yea I think that was what was hindering me in my decisions and questions. There are so many ways to skin a cat and it isn't very clear what is the best way. Everyone has their perspective and finding a happy medium between them all was proving quite challenging. I have a gaming PC on the...

Nevermind on the unRAID thing. I did some research and it doesn't seem to be what I want out of the system. I am considering a few changes. For one, I had a dual socket CPU on a single core MoBo. I changed to a single socket CPU. I am also looking into changing to a 4U chassis that has...

I think the Motherboard I selected handles RDIMM. I think that is why I picked it. I was having trouble finding Crucial ECC UDIMMs (I really like that brand, for obvious reasons). But RDIMMs were easy to find at a reasonable price, so I adjusted the MoBo to be able to handle that as well as...

So we decided to use your parts list as a starting point and try and put together one of our own to match the chassis we really liked. We wanted to follow in your example as close as possible, but we ended up going with a higher passmark rated CPU. We wanted to know if our parts list makes...

Ok that definitely makes more sense. I have a gaming PC right now that I could use to rip the blu rays and just move them to the NAS over the LAN. So I will probably do exactly as you suggested and go for that type of setup. So in essence, the HTPC is mainly used as a client for a media...