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I have this plan to shove my gear in a server rack, and then under the stairs. I have installed an exhaust fan in the room which will force are through ducting and into another room, it will be controlled with a temperature switch which will kick it on at a set temp(any temp setting...

I've burned all of my classical music collection to flac and am happy with the sound quality. I've installed and, after a lot of fiddling, find Plex to be merely okay for my purposes. I use my own local media assets and don't really want any help from an agent, like last.fm. In other words, my...

Hello I am a complete novice trying to build a movie server to store my ever growing collection of BDs. My wife and i have decided to go this direction now that we have little hands roaming the house (already destroyed one disc at 9mos). I have found a 4U rackmount case with 15 internal 3.5"...

Just wondering if someone has any hands on experience with DBM servers. I just purchased a 6TB fanless server to store my flac music and some music dvd's. Good or bad comments welcomed.

Approximately how many DVD and BlueRay movies can you fit on a 1TB drive? Thanks

Been wanting do set up a server to distribute 2 channel audio and video SD and possibly HD/BlueRay through the house I'm building. I just found and read wbasset's excellent write up about building an AV server...

I need a meidia streaming server which can meet my requests below. 1. Supports AC3/DTS 5.1 SPDIF passthrough and DTS-HD/TrueHD HDMI passthrough. 2. Supports wireless. 3. Can play 3D. 4. Within $150. I hope anyone who knows can help me. Thx.:innocent:

Today Im updating my experience with the Synology DS413+ ... Its been up and running now for 4 months and has been nothing short of an amazing piece of equipment.... First I'll tell you the only minus I can think of thats not really a negative is the cost - because it does SO MANY different...

From by research thread I finally came up with all the parts needed (wanted) for our Cedar Creek Music Server. I appreciate everyone who participated and gave me all the recommendations, advice and ideas. Parts List from Amazon Silverstone Tek GD01B-R-USB3.0 Aluminum Front Panel/0.8mm...

I don't know if I am headed down the right road or not, but I was looking for music server and man those things are expensive. I am seeing them costing $2,000 and more. Crazy! I have built several computers over the years, so surely building a music server can't be all that hard... can it...

Afternoon all! The time has come for me to really start looking at building my own music server. I am not really looking to do a full-on HTPC as I prefer the physical disk for movies (cannot really explain why - perhaps it is the old VHSer in me. :)) - I just want to have a main location for...

I wanted to replace a machine I originally built for playing audio but ended up being using primarily for video. Goals were to consolidate storage as a file server, do HTPC duties, and serve media to other devices, such as our tablets and Raspberry Pi's. I decided on a system built around the...

I finally got tired of hearing my Quad Core AMD HTPC make so much noise, so I decided to build a NAS out of the old Zalman HD160. This is what I am doing for a NAS: ASRock LGA1155/Intel B75/DDR3/Quad CrossFireX/SATA3&USB3.0/A&V&GbE/MicroATX Motherboard B75 PRO3-M Seasonic SSR-450RM ATX...

All, I am in the planning phase of finishing a 1900 square foot basement. The jewel of this project is a home theater area sporting a 7.2 configuration. I want a dedicated media server to catalog DVDs, Blu Rays and music. I have a pc that is about 4 years old. It is running Windows 7 X64...