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Posted 06 February 2013 - 05:36 PM
You need to initialize the hard drives as GPT and not MBR. Might have to go into disk management to do that. I don't think Windows 8 prompted me to do that with my 3 TBs.
If you wanted to use the 3 TB as a boot drive, then I think you need an UEFI supported motherboard.
Thanks. Using them strictly for storage.
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Posted 06 February 2013 - 07:13 PM
Of the two my preference is MB and I do all my navigation with my happuenguage remote.You can do those in XBMC as well, but I'll give it a shot. I really hate using XBMC's navigation menus once I get a video playing its such a pain.
Also MB3 is going to be coming with android streaming etc which will be awesome as well as some other sweat features
Links
http://community.med...media-browser-3
http://www.mediabrowser3.com/
Looks great, I'm assuming it'll work with a harmony remote then?
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Posted 06 February 2013 - 07:20 PM
If you have something that works fine with WMC it'll work with MB no issues
Of the two my preference is MB and I do all my navigation with my happuenguage remote.
You can do those in XBMC as well, but I'll give it a shot. I really hate using XBMC's navigation menus once I get a video playing its such a pain.
Also MB3 is going to be coming with android streaming etc which will be awesome as well as some other sweat features
Links
http://community.med...media-browser-3
http://www.mediabrowser3.com/
Looks great, I'm assuming it'll work with a harmony remote then?
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 05:48 PM
Which remote control are you guys using for your HTPC?
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Posted 07 February 2013 - 06:07 PM
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 10:27 AM
I totally forgot about an old AMD based PC I had in my closet. It has a Phenom II X4 955BE on an Asus M4A79XTD Evo motherboard with 2x2GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws memory and an AMD 5770 GPU. I can totally use this as my storage PC. Any reason not to? I need to find a smaller, quieter case for it though.
Edited by tbris84, 11 February 2013 - 10:28 AM.
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 10:45 AM
I totally forgot about an old AMD based PC I had in my closet. It has a Phenom II X4 955BE on an Asus M4A79XTD Evo motherboard with 2x2GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws memory and an AMD 5770 GPU. I can totally use this as my storage PC. Any reason not to? I need to find a smaller, quieter case for it though.
How can you forget about a perfectly fine pc that's still viable today?! 
Only reason not to use it for storage would be that it's overqualified 
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Posted 11 February 2013 - 12:13 PM
I totally forgot about an old AMD based PC I had in my closet. It has a Phenom II X4 955BE on an Asus M4A79XTD Evo motherboard with 2x2GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws memory and an AMD 5770 GPU. I can totally use this as my storage PC. Any reason not to? I need to find a smaller, quieter case for it though.
How can you forget about a perfectly fine pc that's still viable today?!
Only reason not to use it for storage would be that it's overqualified
haha
I don't know, it's old and I've replaced it twice already. I always sell my old to fund the new, but I built two of these and just forgot I hadn't sold the second. I guess the question is, will I have to reformat the hard drives I just installed into my main rig. I put my two 2TB into RAID0 via W7. Can I just swap them into the old PC? If not, no big deal. I'm putting my new 3TB's in it anyway. But I would like to keep all the storage in one machine.
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Posted 12 February 2013 - 09:02 AM
IIRC WinXP is the only one who'd throw a tantrum when you change boards.
I believe W7 doesn't do that any more but since you're using RAID0, I'd say better format those HDDs first.
And I agree with Prunes, that system would be a waste really.. Its even better than my late gaming system.. 
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Posted 12 February 2013 - 09:04 AM
If you have something that works fine with WMC it'll work with MB no issues
Awesome.
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Posted 12 February 2013 - 09:07 AM
I totally forgot about an old AMD based PC I had in my closet. It has a Phenom II X4 955BE on an Asus M4A79XTD Evo motherboard with 2x2GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill Ripjaws memory and an AMD 5770 GPU. I can totally use this as my storage PC. Any reason not to? I need to find a smaller, quieter case for it though.
Sure can....
You could pull the video card and just run it headless after you set it up.... then just remote desktop into it when you need to. My server is currently running the same CPU and a ECS 785+ board same ram too
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