Need help building WHOLE house Media Server for 5 STX-HD100 Extenders

[Crashless]

Originally Posted by Raystream

As long as I get a motherboard with 2 eSata ports I am thinking of getting the following eSata 5 port hub. Has anyone used one of these?
http://www.cooldrives.com/sahub5muussi.html

Hmm. If you're looking to do RAID 5, I don't think that'll do it.

You need something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816115030

That is only a 4 port card, 8 port cards are more than twice as much.

If you get an Intel motherboard with the ICH9R chipset, (P35 and up), you can do RAID 5 (actually, it might be RAID 3, can't remember) on the board - but it doesn't offload the work from your system, which may, or may not be acceptable.

[lobosrul]

Originally Posted by Raystream

Currently I have Comcast basic cable, Skyangel via Dish Network and a UHF HD antenna. I'm really not interested in Dish networks regular packages. So that leaves Comcast and the antenna. And I'm really not interested recording analog channels from comcast so hence the 5 QAM Tuners that I want to get.

You might be very disappointed with QAM from Comcast. All they are required to make available on QAM is your local OTA networks, and in most markets thats all they do. So if you can pull everything in from an antennae there really is no point.

[BFisher]

Originally Posted by briands

I thought I had this working this way as well, but I've noticed that the updates to the edl file are not sent to the player unless you stop and restart the player. Is there a setting somewhere?

I'm not sure... I'll tell you what I have in Show Analyzer config settings that make sense for Sage:
- When to Create - when beginning processing
- Live Detection Delay - 1
- Live Detection Hold off - 0

and in DirMon2 I don't have any of the center boxes checked (wait until idle, or target file is finished, etc.)

hope it helps

[bcjenkins]

Originally Posted by Crashless

Hmm. If you're looking to do RAID 5, I don't think that'll do it.

You need something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16816115030

That is only a 4 port card, 8 port cards are more than twice as much.

If you get an Intel motherboard with the ICH9R chipset, (P35 and up), you can do RAID 5 (actually, it might be RAID 3, can't remember) on the board - but it doesn't offload the work from your system, which may, or may not be acceptable.

Some boards will support port multipliers. No need for an expensive card unless the performance of your disk i/o is coming into question. This thread is full of very useful commentary on building a NAS.

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[Raystream]

If I were to go strictly with HDHomeRuns (5 total)... would I be able to put them on a seperate gigabit network that would be connected to 1 of the 2 gigabit ports on the server mobo? I guess what I am getting at is... does the HD Extenders need any contact with the HDHomeRun or does it all pass through the server?

[mikesm]

Originally Posted by Raystream

If I were to go strictly with HDHomeRuns (5 total)... would I be able to put them on a seperate gigabit network that would be connected to 1 of the 2 gigabit ports on the server mobo? I guess what I am getting at is... does the HD Extenders need any contact with the HDHomeRun or does it all pass through the server?

that will work fine. It all goes through the server.