Hello Guys,
Just came across this site and love it, lots of info and it seems like alot of people know there stuff around here..so i decided to ask some questions about my personal setup and what would be the BEST option for me
I was thinking about setting up a MCE Media Server that has all my media (pics,DVDs, movies,videos & music), and add 3 powerful HTPCs for the home theater, game room, and family room.
I currently have a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server that I plan to use as the media server. It has Intel Dual Core Xeon 5050 2x2MB Cache 3.00GHZ processor, 2GB memory, PERC5/i Integrated Controller Card, two 80GB hard drive.
My main goal is that i want to have all the HTPCs to access the server, and play movie/music. Also, each HTPC will be able to record the Dish program and save it to the server. Each HTPC can play standard DVD, and blue ray DVD.
My budget is 10K. I want to spend some $ to upgrade the server first, get more hard drives (3 - 5 TB). then use the rest to build 3 HTPCs. So, please let me what do you think it's the best setup.
(1) Case? desktop style, not tower, need to be mounted in the rack
