Home Theatre PC Case
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Any recommendations on a HTPC case? I'm going to be gutting and re-building my MythTV machine soon. Since I'm basically throwing everything else out (current Mobo is old: has PATA controllers and RDRAM, so it has to go), I figure I may as well give the whole thing away to my nephew and re-build from scratch. I have one of the Silverstone cases right now, but I'm looking at other brands. Looking for one with about 9-10 drive bays (2-3 external), built-in remote receiver, and a small status screen of some kind on the front. Also looking at cases with water cooling plumbing to cut the noise.
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Any recommendations on a HTPC case? I'm going to be gutting and re-building my MythTV machine soon. Since I'm basically throwing everything else out (current Mobo is old: has PATA controllers and RDRAM, so it has to go), I figure I may as well give the whole thing away to my nephew and re-build from scratch. I have one of the Silverstone cases right now, but I'm looking at other brands. Looking for one with about 9-10 drive bays (2-3 external), built-in remote receiver, and a small status screen of some kind on the front. Also looking at cases with water cooling plumbing to cut the noise.
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Any recommendations on a HTPC case? I'm going to be gutting and re-building my MythTV machine soon. Since I'm basically throwing everything else out (current Mobo is old: has PATA controllers and RDRAM, so it has to go), I figure I may as well give the whole thing away to my nephew and re-build from scratch. I have one of the Silverstone cases right now, but I'm looking at other brands. Looking for one with about 9-10 drive bays (2-3 external), built-in remote receiver, and a small status screen of some kind on the front. Also looking at cases with water cooling plumbing to cut the noise.
The status screen will be too bright and will be distracting. Having a lot of drive bays is a good idea. Make sure your motherboard supports at least 6 SATA2 drives, and has eSATA ports for adding external drives
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001 -
The status screen will be too bright and will be distracting. Having a lot of drive bays is a good idea. Make sure your motherboard supports at least 6 SATA2 drives, and has eSATA ports for adding external drives
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
The status screen will be too bright and will be distracting
It can be at the start, but I hardly notice the 7" LCD in mine now. I'm not sure of the need for supporting so many drives in a HTPC, mine has 2 1TB mirrored drives and it works fine, if there is anything I need to keep I transfer it to my 3TB NAS, but then if you don't have a NAS/SAN the extra drives would come in handy.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
The status screen will be too bright and will be distracting
It can be at the start, but I hardly notice the 7" LCD in mine now. I'm not sure of the need for supporting so many drives in a HTPC, mine has 2 1TB mirrored drives and it works fine, if there is anything I need to keep I transfer it to my 3TB NAS, but then if you don't have a NAS/SAN the extra drives would come in handy.
I have three 1TB drives, and am considering upgrading all of them to 2TB (I have over 500 movies/tv shows on it. :)
.45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001
