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| I'm trying to build a media player PC, any suggestions? by blackwater 07/07/2019, 10:41pm PDT | ||||
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| I was considering using DLNA to stream files to my p4, but it seems like there are a lot of limitations on what files the ps4 can play. (Also, I have a lot of ISO files, and apparently those don't work with the DLNA protocol.) So maybe I really do need just a dedicated computer attached to the TV to do this.
Looking at what is on the market now, it all looks kind of shitty. It seems like after Moore's law broke down, Intel spent the last few years kind of messing around with bigger caches on the same architecture. Now there are tons of confusingly named CPUs that only an ultra-nerd could tell apart. (Oh yes, the i5-8400-- clearly that outperforms the i7-7800X). I want this thing to be a file server, so I want big disks. I have like 8 TB of stuff. So that means either a lot of drive bays, or pretty big drives. Anything over 4 TB seems like it's super-expensive, though. I'm also finding that a lot of crappy Dell or HP towers don't have more than one or two drive bays. If I did build my own server, basically I would want 4 drive bays, with some kind of RAID setup. Bus speed is not really an issue and SATA II or SATA III is probably plenty fast. I would probably use integrated graphics, because I don't have a desire to suffer through configuring NVIDIA under Linux. Everything in my home video setup uses HDMI. Is there still an advantage in building your own server? |
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I'm trying to build a media player PC, any suggestions? by 07/07/2019, 10:41pm PDT  Do you even need the PC? by 07/08/2019, 4:12am PDT I'm looking forward to that Pi. 4GB is by 07/08/2019, 8:15am PDT Re: Do you even need the PC? by 07/17/2019, 11:39am PDT I'm hearing two thing here by 07/17/2019, 9:05pm PDT Re: I'm trying to build a media player PC, any suggestions? by 07/26/2019, 1:54pm PDT |
