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I'm thinking about building my own mini-itx computer as a media box. I'm trying to figure out what exactley I need then I'm going to try to put it into a cigar box or something so when it's sitting next to the tv you can't tell it's a computer.
ohh no wonder... lol 1.6 TB imagine defraging that thing...:stp:
I have have used 3 antec p/s in past 2 years.. that is 2 different computers.. Not sure of quality anymore..
There are some great HTPC's cases out their right now.. I have one downstairs right now.. I tried XP MediaCenter it worked alright.. but I found media portal to work a bit better. And it is free! Also works with the Media center remote! Why go ITX? Less lower.. more expensive.. I run a Celeron 2Ghz plays all videos perfectly. Case and m/b..CPU.. memory was less then $300.. most of it was the case hahaha One thing to watch if using digital audio out from sound card.. the volume control on most cases willl not work, of course the volume in windows does not either. Check out the silverstone cases..
Not sure if question is what is raid.. but here you go
Level Description Minimum # of disks Image
RAID 0 Striped set without parity. Provides improved performance and additional storage but no fault tolerance. Any disk failure destroys the array, which becomes more likely with more disks in the array. A single disk failure destroys the entire array because when data is written to a RAID 0 drive, the data is broken into fragments. The number of fragments is dictated by the number of disks in the drive. The fragments are written to their respective disks simultaneously on the same sector. This allows smaller sections of the entire chunk of data to be read off the drive in parallel, giving this type of arrangement huge bandwidth. When one sector on one of the disks fails, however, the corresponding sector on every other disk is rendered useless because part of the data is now corrupted. RAID 0 does not implement error checking so any error is unrecoverable. More disks in the array means higher bandwidth, but greater risk of data loss. SNIA definition. 2 RAID Level 0
RAID 1 Mirrored set without parity. Provides fault tolerance from disk errors and single disk failure. Increased read performance occurs when using a multi-threaded operating system that supports split seeks, very small performance reduction when writing. Array continues to operate so long as at least one drive is functioning. SNIA definition. 2 RAID Level 1
RAID 3 Striped set with dedicated parity. This mechanism provides an improved performance and fault tolerance similar to RAID 5, but with a dedicated parity disk rather than rotated parity stripes. The single parity disk is a bottle-neck for writing since every write requires updating the parity data. One minor benefit is the dedicated parity disk allows the parity drive to fail and operation will continue without parity or performance penalty. SNIA definition 3 RAID Level 3
RAID 4 Identical to RAID 3 but does block-level striping instead of byte-level striping. SNIA definition 3 RAID Level 4
RAID 5 Striped set with distributed parity. Distributed parity requires all but one drive to be present to operate; drive failure requires replacement, but the array is not destroyed by a single drive failure. Upon drive failure, any subsequent reads can be calculated from the distributed parity such that the drive failure is masked from the end user. The array will have data loss in the event of a second drive failure and is vulnerable until the data that was on the failed drive is rebuilt onto a replacement drive. SNIA definition 3 RAID Level 5
RAID 6 Striped set with dual parity. Provides fault tolerance from two drive failures; array continues to operate with up to two failed drives. This makes larger RAID groups more practical, especially for high availability systems. This becomes increasingly important because large-capacity drives lengthen the time needed to recover from the failure of a single drive. Single parity RAID levels are vulnerable to data loss until the failed drive is rebuilt: the larger the drive, the longer the rebuild will take. With dual parity, it gives time to rebuild the array without the data being volatile while the failed drive is being recovered. SNIA definition 4 RAID Level 6
Nested levels
Main article: Nested RAID levels
Many storage controllers allow RAID levels to be nested. That is, one RAID that can use another as its basic element, instead of using physical drives. It is instructive to think of these arrays as layered on top of each other, with physical drives at the bottom.
Nested RAIDs are usually signified by joining the numbers indicating the RAID levels into a single number, sometimes with a '+' in between. For example, RAID 10 (or RAID 1+0) conceptually consists of multiple level 1 arrays stored on physical drives with a level 0 array on top, striped over the level 1 arrays. In the case of RAID 0+1, it is most often called RAID 0+1 as opposed to RAID 01 to avoid confusion with RAID 1. However, when the top array is a RAID 0 (such as in RAID 10 and RAID 50), most vendors choose to omit the '+', though RAID 5+0 is more informative.
* RAID 0+1: striped sets in a mirrored set (minimum 4 disks; even number of disks) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity. The key difference from RAID 1+0 is that RAID 0+1 creates a second striped set to mirror a primary striped set. The array continues to operate with one or more drives failed in the same mirror set, but if two or more drives fail on different sides of the mirroring, the data on the RAID system is lost.
* RAID 1+0: mirrored sets in a striped set (minimum 4 disks; even number of disks) provides fault tolerance and improved performance but increases complexity. The key difference from RAID 0+1 is that RAID 1+0 creates a striped set from a series of mirrored drives. In a failed disk situation RAID 1+0 performs better because all the remaining disks continue to be used. The array can sustain multiple drive losses as long as no two drives lost comprise a single pair of one mirror.
* RAID 5+0: stripe across distributed parity RAID systems
* RAID 5+1: mirror striped set with distributed parity (some manufacturers label this as RAID 53).
I'm really kind of partial to my case though. It was super cheap, so it isn't the most sturdy or effective at deadening sound, but I think it looks really slick.
But I had a hell of a time trying to find a silver dvd burner, so i bought a cheap beige one and have been looking since for a silver one...
Sweet looking case though. I had one of those 12" green under dash neon lights in my box at one time. Looked pretty cool.
I've actually though about building my own case out of Oak , Cherry and Walnut and turning it into a high end piece of furniture. With the exception of some Bob Vila skills, I don't think it would be that hard.
I've tossed around the idea of painting it silver, but I thought it would look cheap if it didn't have any words on it. I still might, but I'm still looking for a nicer, silver one.
I actually have a blue cold cathode light tube in the bottom of the case. I can turn it on or off as I please, and currently it's sound activated (flashes with the bass of music or whatever sound) Kinda stupid, but kinda cool at the same time.
Going old school!!! :) We used to use magic markers to paint our drives black to match the case. Silver is hard to come by. used to be hard to come by black.
Raid 0 is best way to go for performance unless you go for a high end raid card with cache.
Btw, the cathode tube is on in that picture, but the red got really washed out in the pic for some reason.
I originally planned on going raid 0, but then decided I had plenty enough storage space as it was, and the hdd wasn't really the weak point of the system anyway, so I decided against it.
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