Merry Christmas!

[ukmgranger]

As the title Says!!

I have been a member here since April this year.

I really can't thank all of you guys/gals enough for all the help that you have provided over the past year.

In particular I wish to thank mlbdude for his superb 'MCE' STV. This has made the whole HTPC experience worth while (and made my GF much happier with me). As soon as this goes beta you should set up paypal or something for donations

Also Matt for the MVP interface. Brilliant

So - Merry Christmas to one and all

[korben_dallas]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Fort Worth, TX USA.

Have a happy holiday season and good pvr'ing

[mdmint]

I was just coming online to say the same thing!
May you all have the Merriest Christmas and may Santa bring just what you're hoping for to take your Sage setup to the next level.
And ditto the mucho thanks for the STV work of many!

[nicktripp]

Happy Festivus!

[kny3twalker]

Merry Christmas guys






and if anyone wants a gmail account
I just got 10 invites

[Opus4]

What am I doing online at midnight before Christmas!? I guess I'm playing Santa this year for our 5 & 2 year olds... so they can go downstairs and start yelling something about "He came! Santa came! He was here!", just like they did last year.

But, at least I found out that I'm finally getting my own copy of SageTV! Finally, I can see what all the fuss is about, instead of always just reading & writing about how great it is to record TV on a PC! Woo Hoo!

(I just had to toss that "Woo Hoo!" in there, as I remembered that a forum member named Worf wrote that phrase at one point. I always felt that I should have replied that I just couldn't imagine Worf saying "Woo Hoo!". )

Oh yes... Merry Christmas!

- Andy

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Opus4

What am I doing online at midnight before Christmas!?

What are you doing!

Well it's only 11 here and I'm finally playing with my new toys

Anyway, figured I'd throw in my Merry Christmas to all the other forum members out there. It's been a fun year, and I look forward to another one.

[korben_dallas]

Holy moly.. 1.7TB

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Well it's only 11 here and I'm finally playing with my new toys

Yeah... 1.7TB must be nice... makes my 500GB seem tiny! Oh well, I can't even watch everything that gets recorded now, so I'll just pretend I'm satisifed with what I've got.

Hmmm... that might be enough room to hold Santa's "Good vs. Bad" list!

- Andy

-ing to the Waitresses' "Chistmas Wrapping"... speaking of which, I had better get started!

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Yeah... 1.7TB must be nice... makes my 500GB seem tiny!

I don't even know yet, I spent all yesterday trying to get it running. In a complete cosmic inversion of logic, my 400W PC Power and Cooling Silencer 400 (>$100 when I got it) won't boot the PC with all 10-11 (8 raid + boot + other + optical drives), but my 300W Fortron FSP300-60PN ($25) will power it just fine. Go figure.

After I figured that out (and a bang-head-on-wall jumper screwup) I spent about 4-6 hours today waiting for the array to "rebuild" (even though it's brand new) and then format.

Oh well, I can't even watch everything that gets recorded now, so I'll just pretend I'm satisifed with what I've got.

Yeah, but this isn't for recordings (I don't watch what I've got either). This for my home-brew Kaleidescape

Have fun wrapping!

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by stanger89

In a complete cosmic inversion of logic, my 400W PC Power and Cooling Silencer 400 (>$100 when I got it) won't boot the PC with all 10-11 (8 raid + boot + other + optical drives), but my 300W Fortron FSP300-60PN ($25) will power it just fine.

You are brave running such 'small' power supplies -- I recently stuck a 510W from PC Power & Cooling into my dual-cpu PC, since my old one was starting to grind on warm days every time my cpu usage spiked. It took me a long time to figure out it wasn't a hard drive going bad!

This for my home-brew Kaleidescape

OK.. I'll bite: what is a "home-brew Kaleidescape"? (or, am I not getting the joke!?)

- Andy

[kny3twalker]

http://www.kaleidescape.com/

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by Opus4

You are brave running such 'small' power supplies -- I recently stuck a 510W from PC Power & Cooling into my dual-cpu PC, since my old one was starting to grind on warm days every time my cpu usage spiked. It took me a long time to figure out it wasn't a hard drive going bad!

Well throwing the 300 in was kind of a matter of curiosity, I didn't expect it to work. Of course, my EE training tells me it shouldn't surprise me. The HDDs themselves only draw about 72W total, or, <530mA (12V), <450mA (5V), <8.6W each, my 300W PS supplies 200W on the 3.3+5V rails (30A on the 5V IIRC).

OK.. I'll bite: what is a "home-brew Kaleidescape"? (or, am I not getting the joke!?)

- Andy

No joke, I just don't like spending $30000 when I can build something myself for < 1/10 the $$$.
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...04-part-1.html

[Opus4]

OK -- thanks for the link(s). I guess I hadn't heard of Kaleidescape before, or promptly forgot about it due to price. Of course, you realize that 80-90% of something like that is the fee for the hand-holding when they do all the work for someone. But, I would guess you _do_ realize it, since you are building your own system!

- Andy

[tealcomp]

Merry Christmas everyone; I have really enjoyed the short time I have spent reading hours and hours of posts from such knowledgeable people; kinda reminds me of my AVSForum Days

I look forward to better things to come in 2005


-Dan

[mls]

Merry Christmas everybody!

[tealcomp]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Well throwing the 300 in was kind of a matter of curiosity, I didn't expect it to work. Of course, my EE training tells me it shouldn't surprise me. The HDDs themselves only draw about 72W total, or, <530mA (12V), <450mA (5V), <8.6W each, my 300W PS supplies 200W on the 3.3+5V rails (30A on the 5V IIRC).


No joke, I just don't like spending $30000 when I can build something myself for < 1/10 the $$$.
http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volum...04-part-1.html

I took a look at the weblink; It is an interesting concept, but I would have expected at least Gb linkage (just for the price if nothing else); But it seems that unless I am missing something, we have a similar system in place already in SAGE. I cannot imagine paying 30K such a system when as Stanger says it could be built for 1/10 that price. Stanger, how do you plan on BACKING all of your arrays up? Only thing big enough in the tape storage industry (LTO) would cost a lot of dough in equipment and media..just curious; I know once you get that in place, your don't want to lose it

-Dan

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by tealcomp

Stanger, how do you plan on BACKING all of your arrays up? Only thing big enough in the tape storage industry (LTO) would cost a lot of dough in equipment and media..just curious; I know once you get that in place, your don't want to lose it

I don't, I have all the originals so those are the backup. The RAID-5 is in place to protect the time it takes me to rip them. As you note, backing up such quantities of data is quite impractical.

[SHS]

Just wonder stanger98 what kind of case did you use?.

[stanger89]

Roughly this:

But mine's an older model, actually it was the MaximumPC dream machine case from several years ago (the dual proc one built by Alienware), mine's got a solid door and I painted it grey.

https://www.casedepot.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=79

Price seems to have gone up though, I thought I payed $100 for it when I got it.