Multi-media files are large. With the ever growing size of our music collection and the addition of PVR capabilities to our media server it became apparent that we would be needing both some serious horsepower and ginormous storage room in order to accomodate our media needs. Over the years we have been steadily upgrading our media server. This system is responsible for both storing music, video and photos as well as recording television programs.
The hardware
Antec Sonata III case
ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe motherboard
AMD Phenom X4 9550 quad core processor
ASUS DVD-RW drive
ASUS Radeon 3650HD video card (Passive cooling)
Crucial Ballistix DDR 2 RAM (4 GB)
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drives (5 x 1 TB)
Hauppauge HVR-1800 Analog / Digital TV tuner PCI-Express (2)