build your own computer

[Dead Eye]

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I was tearing apart two of my servers yesterday installing new hardware and reconfiguring them ^.^

It's getting a bit out of control now... I have my "low power" server which is effectively a NAS now (Network Attached Storage) which houses all of my totally legitimate TV Shows and Movies (9.5TB of disk space at the moment with protection against disk failure), then I decided I needed some more processing power but didn't want to spend any money on parts, so dug out my old server which was way over-powered at the time, but is useful now. Set up the OS on a spare SSD I had lying around, everything else was intact so that's now providing my media collection online (needed to be powerful to transcode the movies which is what my newer server was struggling with).

So those two are quietly humming away underneath / behind my TV, then there is my main PC which I've spoken about before. I have a 1U Server Rack with dual Intel Xenon processors doing fuck all behind my sofa and another HTPC (Home Theatre PC) that used to be used to stream my media to the TV but that is now doing nothing as well. Oh and then there is my laptop...

Hmmm... maybe I need another PC


[smg id=2717 type=preview caption="Old Server (Core i7-2600k)"]
Big black box under the Virgin TiVo thing... it hums a lot...

[smg id=2718 type=preview caption="NAS Server"]
Black box behind the TV; modern and quiet... but too slow and couldn't be assed to spend money to make it faster

[smg id=2719 type=preview caption="Old Computers"]
Thin silver case is the 1U Rack Server and the black box above it is the HTPC