In my first follow-up to my post on moving your family to a whole home Media Center solution I wanted to give a better idea on what I have in my setup and how it’s all connected. We have four rooms in the house where we can use and enjoy Media Center. The following diagram [...]
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The 5-Bay SATA drive enclosure is up and running with a new 1.5TB hard drive. The storage pool (aka JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks)) now looks like this: The setup was very much plug and play except for one small snag. The eSATA port on the back of my HP Media Smart WHS only [...]
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I have an HP MediaSmart Windows Home Server that has become the cornerstone of my family’s home network and my Windows Media Center setup. The home server has four drive bays which I have filled with the following drives: 500GB (included/system), 500GB (taken from Media Center PC), 1TB, 1.5TB for a total of 3.5TB’s. Just [...]
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One of the best things about Media Center and really any HTPC is that you have total control over the amount of storage at your disposal. Once you realize this and start increasing your storage it can also be one of the worst things you can do (but of course not bad enough to go [...]
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Image via Wikipedia About two weeks ago I added another hard drive to my Windows Home Server (WHS). I bought a Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB drive. So now my WHS has 3 drives: the 500GB main drive that came preinstalled, a 1TB Western Digital drive and the new 1.5TB Seagate drive for a total of [...]
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