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I don’t have the UFO one, so I can’t talk to that, but the Harmony is very responsive.  I don’t recognize any difference between IR and RF.  The 890 has a rechargeable battery with a charging dock so I need to dock it every few weeks, so it has a pretty good life on it.

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I use the Harmony 890.  I picked up a couple of refurbished units for about $100 each for two of my rooms.  I have been very happy with them.  The only issue I have is that in our living room with tall ceilings, if the remote is blocked in a certain way I get double hits, no amount of tweaking of the settings seem to be able to stop it.

 

The way I believe the UFO setup works is that when you press a button to generate the IR signal a small amount of RF is released by the remote and then it will send that signal to the UFO unit.  So yes, I believe both the IR and the RF will work.  Then you would have to make sure that you fully cover the IR receiver on each unit, which is sometime easier said than done.

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yes, yes of course…  I made a similar choice on my last client build when I used an Athlon 4850e.  This is a rack mount server in Wisconsin, so noise and heat isn’t too much of a concern for me.  🙂

 

 

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Thanks for the reply.  You got me thinking I will go up to an i3..  But I’m not convinced on the T though.

According to those benchmarks at load, the T saves you 7.25 W for one of the benchmarks.  At $0.126/kWh, to make up the small $10 delta you need to run for 15 months at full load.  Assuming you run at full load at 25% you would need to run for about 5 years to save that 10 bucks.  that doesn’t include the 10% performance hit that you take.  That would push out another 6 months, if I did the math right.

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I am also looking a new build to replace my old S939 Operton Sage Server.  The performance has been pretty good for me, but I am looking to reduce my power bills and combine my Sage server with a windows server, running a bunch of small processes, squeezebox, sabnzbd, etc.

I was actually looking at an even cheaper processor, the G620, which is about half the price, of the i3, but also about a 1/3 the speed when encoding.  I am not using this server to play any video, so it might be faster enough for me, what do you guys think?

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1665/

Also, is the advantage of the T processors worth it?  It looks like they are about the same when  idle, and only slightly better when unloaded.  I had read somewhere, that if you have the right kind of motherboard, you can get the same performance of the non-T version, but I can’t find that now.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i5-2500t-2390t-i3-2100t-pentium-g620t_8.html#sect0

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flips, the 20GB reference is just the size of the partition.  That’s the size WHS v1 requires the OS partition to be, so it creates that and the rest of the drive becomes the D: partition.

As far as unraid goes, their website says it only supports up to 21 drives with the Pro license.  shadowhc is talking about 25+ drives, so unless I’m misreading their website, unraid won’t work for his situation.

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Ah..  yeah partition, should of figured…

That is the max that unraid supports in the pool (parity protected), but he could add the 4 others as JBOD or cache, I believe.  I think 25+ drives in one server is a bit of a pipe dream in my opion.  That $250 power supply has a single 12V rail of 100A    (not to mention the cost of the UPS) Even at that most of his drives would need to be green to get up to 25 drives  and I don’t know of a lot of cases that would support 25 drives.  Running two servers with a more realistic power supply and case seems like a better option.

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As an unraid user, I would really reccomend it.  You mentioned that you only wanted pure file storage.  Unraid seems like a perfect fit for you.  It has parity backup so it a drive fails you can just replace it and it will rebuild it. 

One reccomendation would be to throw out those older drives.  You are still using a 20 gig drive?  That’s MEGA ancient. (That had to of been a typo..  200 maybe? still ancient though 🙂 )  Also, I think unraid only support SATA.  The way you are talking it doesn’t sound like cost is too much of an issue for you.  🙂

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What is the adavantage of using a server grad NIC?  Your LAN traffic doesn’t go through the router, right? so your only perfomance boost would be to the internet.  Would you really notice a performance difference on a 6 mbit internet connection?

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I use m0n0wall at home.  It has been serving me well for probably 5 years or more.  I use the VPN feature on it, but not too many more of the advance features other than that.  I tried out the  traffic shaping, but I’m not sure how much of a difference it really makes, assuming I have it setup properly.

Probably the only down side is the elec cost of running the computer 24/7.  I have been looking at the DD-WRT project lately, but I have never tried it.

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LRMHelper wasn’t opening in windows 7, but then I found the latest version.

http://www.usbuirt.com/lrnhelper_0_0_5.zip

I found this on a pretty good thread on the Sage forums:

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8483

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Thanks.  I’m on 32 bit w7.

I’m going to have to do some reasearch on lrnhelper.  Is it pretty self explainatory once I get in there?  I will try it tonight.

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Just spending some time on the site again and I just wanted to echo some of the earlier comments on recent forum posts.  In the past that was the only way I was able to get around the forums. 

Reason being is that there are a lot of sections in the forums that are pretty small variations from one another.  If you look at avsforums they took the opposite approach and there is there’s one htpc forum, (with a linux sub-forum those guys always want to be different 🙂 ).  Maybe I’m in the minority, but I would be fine with narrowing down the forum to 5 different ones like:

-HTPC (Hardware and Software)

-Other HT hardware

-Hot Deals

-Movies / off topic

-Home theater construction and automation

Looking now at the last post date, there are a lot that haven’t had a post since early 2009.

I think that would make it lot easier to take a quick peak at the forums to see what the latest discussions are instead of checking the remote section, and then going over to HTPC hardware, then software, etc…

Just my 2 cents…

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It’s not Friday yet, but I’ve jumped on a couple.

A 2TB Seagate drive from Newegg for $70.  Amazon has it for the same price now.

And a Harmony 650 for $50 from Bestbuy.com.

I’m thinking about a 2TB external drive from Staples for $50.  A far bit of screwing around though.

http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=2410658

 

 

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I too fought with this a long time until I figured out I needed windows 7.  I installed that and I was up and running in 30 minutes or so…

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I too fought with this a long time until I figured out I needed windows 7.  I installed that and I was up and running in 30 minutes or so…

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