[mdlug] HP XW8000 HD Recomendations

[Tony Bemus]

Here is the LinuxMCE suggested hardware page
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Hardware


I would suggest SATA drives,  It shows that you can put 4 SATA drives,
I would suggest you get the fastest RPM Spindle speed with low storage
for the OS drive, and then get the largest Storage drives for storing
your movie rips and tv recordings.  Although, as usual bigger and faster
is better for performance.
   Like (1) 80GB 10,000 RPM SATA for the OS, and (1-3) 500GB~2TB for
storage. 

You will also need two NICs.  

As for a tuner card,  hauppague works best but here is a link for
supported cards (anything that MythTV works with)
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Category:TV_Cards.  If you can I have
herd that the HDhomerun works best and it is network based.



On Wed, 2010-10-06 at 15:26 -0400, Peter Bart wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> So I have my used HP XW8000
> <http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11506_na/11506_na.HTML#Storage> and I'm looking to make this my home computer to install LinuxMCE on. What sort of hard drives should I get and does it make sense to configure them as a RAID? Of course I'll need a tuner card and probably a bunch of stuff I don't know about yet. I've been meaning to look into LinuxMCE when this computer jumped in my lap. Any help is appreciated.