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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...

Ok, that is definitely a firehose of information. I did not mean to frustrate you, I was just confused on the overall design. I was under the impression that separating the NAS and HTPC functionality out would allow me to run the Plex Media Server on the HTPC and not the NAS. That is what...

I am having trouble finding a viable NAS-only build. I would do the QNAP, but I was hoping to build it myself to leverage ZFS and FreeNAS. But everything I have seen combines the Plex transcoding into the NAS. I want just a basic build...but also want the connection aggregation that he was...

I found this posted a few days ago and the build seems pretty solid. Could I replace the CPU with the Intel Core i7-7820X and a GTX 1080 with more RAM (32 or 64GB)? I am wondering if these upgrades will give me a perfect machine or if they are actually going to ruin the setup by being A) too...

Ok, well I am definitely more interested in the customization and hardcore nature. Some questions I am trying to understand based on a decision to go down the road of a 1080p specific build. How would all of this connect and what hardware am I supposed to be aiming for in each chassis? I will...

Ok guys, you have given me a ton of really valuable information. I am actually starting to understand my limitations a bit more and I think I may have a better idea of what I should be doing. I think the issue was that I was trying to accomplish 2 very different things and I thought they would...

Definitely good information. That is more-or-less the idea I was going for... The rack will be sitting in a closet behind the theater room, so I am hopeful the noise will not interfere. The client I have right now is an NVIDIA Shield for the home theater. The rest of the house will be PS4s or...

Ok so let me try and address everyone's feedback. I do appreciate the help so far. I am basically trying to accomplish 2 things. I want a configuration that would allow me to rip 1:1 lossless blu rays to a storage device. Custom built or premade, whatever. I want to be able to natively play...

I did a bunch of research today and tried looking through specs and understand my requirements. Here is a parts list I came up with for this build: ASRock Fatal1ty Gaming X299 Professional Gaming i9 LGA 2066 Intel X299 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard Intel Core i7-7820X...

Will I still be able to do this if I am building my own NAS/HTPC? We were thinking of having the NAS/HTPC rack mounted and using Plex to stream to other TVs in the house. But the idea is that we want to be able to play the 1:1 blu ray rips to the home theater TV. Should we be using an NVIDIA...

I want to find out if it is possible to rip blu rays in 1:1 lossless format, with subtitles and everything, included to a PC or NAS (or something else) and be able to access them and stream them to a home theater system in the same lossless quality that a Blu Ray would play in and then also be...