Re: Media Server options

["noel_pilot" <HA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,=20
Do you mind me asking...How did you get the discs out of the machine?!
how are they all connected?!

Just about to ask another question on a similar topic so the answer
may well apply!
Cheers
Noel

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Dave Sussman" <davids@i...> wrote:
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> I'd keep an eye on that server if I were you. I have exactly the
same server and found it overheating, which is why I moved the discs
outside of the machine. Despite having enough power connectors, I
don't really think the machine is suitable for lots of discs and find
the cooling a little understated.
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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
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> Sent: 05 December 2005 13:58
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Media Server options
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> Paul Gordon wrote:
> > OK, so my new media server is nearly ready to be assembled... -
I've just ordered 2TB of disks (oh yeah baby!)
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> Funnily enough I've just finished my new media server - sounds
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> similar.
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> I bought one of the cheap Dell PowerEdge 830 servers for =A3370, a
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> I went with 4 discs instead of 5 so I could avoid the enclosure
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