What are your specs (Mid-Enthusiast Rig owners, mainly)?

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walsufnir said:

fillet said:

Core i7 2600K at 4.9Ghz (1.4v)
Asus P8P67 Pro
Geil 16GB Leggera 4 x 4GB 2133Mhz
Radeon 7950 3GB at 1.2Ghz Core/1350Mhz RAM overvolted can't remember exact volts.
Corsair Force 3 240GB SSD
AuzenTech Prelude X-Fi
Corsair HX-750W PSU (or is that TX can't be bothered to check)
Dell U3011 30 Inch LCD
Logitech Z-5500 5.1 speakers.
Logitech G27 Steering wheel
Logitech G700 Mouse
Logitech G510 Keyboard


Also have a 2 NAS boxes with 5 x 4TB drives in each in ZFS with 1 drive for redundancy in each giving about 30-32TB of storage with about 1300 films ripped from bluray disks. Have a DVB-S2 card in one of these that serves up TV and movies to my HTPC boxes in living room and bedroom, each has a nVidia GT430 for decoding and a low powered AMD Neo CPU. Pay £5 a month for a card sharing service that gives every TV channel known to man from Sky and a couple of the other Astra satellites.

 

Latest addition to the living room will be a Sharp 80 inch LCD being delivered on Tuesday...wooohooo £3299 well spent. :)

Oh how I loved to spend my money in this tech... But sadly my girlfriend watches my expenses like an eagle a mouse so...

But can you tell me what NAS you use? And especially why you use zfs?

For the NAS got some HP Proliant Microservers and then modded them to accept 6 x 3.5 inch drives instead of the usual 4. I'm only using 5 drives in each though because they do have to be sandwiched very close together for the extra 2 otherwise. Then installed NAS4Free on a USB stick as it's got an internal USB slot for doing such thing. The good thing with these is they cost £200ish each and have £100 cashback so only £100 each.

Reason use ZFS is because of how well it works provided you use ECC RAM then there's no risk of a bad RAM module causing corruption along with the self checking nature of ZFS being immune to bit-rot. Only downside is that transfers are about 70MB/s instead of 95-100MB/s with RAID5 and also the expense of 8GB of ECC RAM to allow it to run smoothly as a file server because ZFS gobbles RAM for breakfast.

Without ECC RAM, ZFS is a complete waste of time and asking for trouble due to the massive amount of RAM it uses the problems a bad RAM module would cause don't bear thinking about.

Microservers make great HTPC boxes too, chuck in a GT430 and a TV tuner card and you're all set for hardware decoding and poweful enough to run XBMC easily along with a TV server. They don't look that cool though as they look like the old Shuttle barebones boxes but for cost/functionality can't really beat them.