Cheers for the reply Comp1962,
I would like to re-write my big post I mentioned earilier to including where I brought parts, how much it was to get to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia and what my plans for the future are with this project.
First let me introduce the parts brought in order, as well as am thinking of buying.... and thinking of selling:
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Have- (In perfect working order, but will sell off some parts soon)
CASE: Antec P181 (Modifeid for better airflow)
MB: P5N-D
CPU: Q6600 Core 2 Quad
RAM: DDR2 800MHz 2x2GB Matched Pair Patriot C4
DDR2 800MHz 2x2GB Matched Pair Patriot C4 with larger heat spreader
PSU: OCZ StealthXStream 500W
Coursair TX 750W
Enermax Noisetaker 600W
Antec Truepower Tri 430W (I don’t know why I got so many… )
HDD: OCZ Core Series 120GB SSD
Hitachi 5k320-320 (Laptop 5200k 320GB SataII)
Toshiba MK1255GSX (PS3 120GB SataII)
1x Samsung HD204UI 2TB SataII
2x Samsung HD154UI 1.5TB SataII
ADDINS:
1x Gigabite NIC for PCI slot (Want to throw it)
1x Dlink Wifi (52MB/s) (Also want to throw it)
1x Promise Sata 150 TX4 PCIe (4 Ports SataI)
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Recently Brought-
Case: Zalman MS100 ($179)
http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/info/AL-MS1000-HS2-B/HDD Hotswap:
Zalman HDR1 3x 3” into 3X 5” bay ($89)
http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/info/AL-ZM-HDR1/Welland EZStor 2x 2.5” into 5” bay ($24)
http://www.computeralliance.com.au/part ... Part=11222CPU: Core i5 2500K ($215)
https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?ma ... s_id=16531MB: AsRock Z68 Fatal1ty Professional Gen3 ($299)
https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?ma ... s_id=17937RAM: Corsair Vengence 2x 4GB C9 ($89)
https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?ma ... s_id=16437CPU Heatsink: Antex Kohler H20 620 ($99)
https://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?ma ... s_id=16986___________________________________________________________
STORAGE SETUP-
OS HDD: Mirror Raid 2 laptop drives for failover protection while I am away>
Seagate Momentous XT 500GB (Hybrid SSD) (2x $119) or
WD Scorpio Black 500GB (2x $79) or
Just try and find a second Hitachi…. If you think the speed of the OS HDD is not a concern?
NOTE: what to do with the remaining space… typical windows hogging more than it needs!
Cache HDD: currently owned OCZ Core Series 120GB… What do you think, and is this doable with my MB and SSD, and does RAID of any kind have an affect of this SSD becoming the CACHE???
DATA RAID DRIVES: 2TB Sata 6GB/s unsure what brand yet… any ideas?
RAID CARD: Talk about that later…..
Internal backup: 2TB Samsung (Owned), will probably sell the 2x 1.5TB Samsung’s I have.
External Backup: 3TB Seagate GoFLex USB 3.0 (Owned) will buy more when needed…
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VIDEO SETUP:
Can’t decide between the known to work well, dual tuner “Hauppauge HVR-2210 or 2250”, and the very new quad tuner “BGT3600 (New release with 4 tuners… I think including Satellite see links below:
BGT3600 ($220AUD)
http://shop.blackgold.tv/BGT3600HVR-2210 ($180AUD)
http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/info/AL-HVR2210MCE/1028/NOTE: Will need remote, and I heard the Hauppauge ones are good.
I want this for Digital TV and also our satellite.
Our Satellite is a motorised Dish that hooks into a SuperJack thingy which supports DiSEqC 1.2 and 1.0 the thingy hooks into a Sony Sky 3000 box which we can change the channels with the remote.
FUTHER NOTE: when changing channels which requires the dish to move to another satellite the dish would automatically move to it on channel change, but now it is not doing this and needs to be asked to move to new position via the remote….. Anyone know much about this, and how I can fix it, or what I did wrong???
I think that’s about enough from me today (Will talk about the RAID and backup plans later, but it will be RAID 6, with local External and Internal backup and online backup)
Cheers again.