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The cool thing that I'm excited for is for the hybrid SSD + HDD drive to become more mainstream. Performance of a SSD, cost and reliability of an HDD. Pure awesomeness :)
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It's neat, but I like my electronics without moving parts. Silent, tough to break, no data corruption. It's the dream.
I think my love affair started after my 20gb iPod kept freezing while I was...
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I might be inclined to go the SSD route, reason being price: a 32gb or 40gb SSD is just fine as a boot drive, and they start around the same price as the cheapest hard drives on newegg ($70-$75)
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oh yeah, absolutely. In this case, you're not really building an HTPC but an entire media network. You're building a front end and letting a back end server (the NAS) handle the data storage and...
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I disagree. I :heart: my SSD in my HTPC. IT's a simple 32GB SSD, and along with it I've got a 500GB HDD that's used for DVR recording to. Having the SSD is awesome because it's quiet (obviously),...
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seems you can do lengthy typing on it. That's a more expensive version of what I have. I think it looks kind of lame with the lid and all. Makes it look like a laptop without a screen. type that...
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Not so sure you can claim SSDs to have no data corruption. That seems to be one of the main reasons why people don't get them (aside from the price per GB). So many of them are reported to go bad...
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Oh you're right! I didn't scroll down to see it next to someone's hand. My IOGear is definitely larger.
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I'm getting ready to put together an HTPC for the first time. I want it to be a little more capable than a typical media center so I plan to put a sandy bridge celeron in it - G530. Nothing great but...
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For the most part any drive will do for the OS (though a sata would be best). Also for a remote I just tend to use a a MCE (microsoft media center remote). For mine I just setup an ITX apu with a...
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To supplement a Media Center Remote, I would strongly suggest looking into getting an IOGear GKM561R Wireless keyboard with built-in trackball. The keyboard is about the size of a laptop keyboard and...
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ah. well depending what exactly he means by "more capable than a typical media center" will help him decide which to get. If he simply wants something that will help him type in a youtube search a...
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I have a 4 yr old E1200 celeron (LGA775, 1.6Ghz, 800Mhz 65nm) on a ECS G33T-M2 board (G33 chip, GMA3100 integrated vga) and it plays 1080p x264 videos fine with VLC and without proprietary...
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I'll take a look for that setting this evening, thanks. If I cant find anything, I might pick up a cheap Radeon 5450 and be done with it.
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Using a flash drive or a USB flash drive as OS drive is a bad idea. They do not have the wear leveling technology that SSD's do and will kill the device off pretty quickly.
I personally would go...
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You need to give more details by what you mean about a "typical media center" and what you plan to do with it. If you're using it to record (or serve) TVs, movies, etc, you want a big HDD. What OS...
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I dont want to build an htpc that is the bare minimum specs to play 1080 video. I'd like to be able to do a few other things if I want, even though I probably wont. Definitely not looking to do much...
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How awful would my proposed htpc be at games? I have a nice system in my office I can use for games but I'd like to be able to play simpler games on the htpc in my living room. I dont plan on adding...
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that or a logitech setup and a revue keyboard which I think can be paired with a unified receaver
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I've seen deals on the logitech one. it seems pretty nice since it has backlit keys but the size looks a little small for me for actual internet typing and stuff. I'm currently on my HTPC because my...
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can you do lengthy typing on a phone? My students type faster when texting than they do when using a computer keyboard. It's something that can be learned....I suppose.
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no I dont type fast on a phone and this keyboard is kind of between the size of a phone and pc keyboard so its too big to thumb type. But its fine for what I'd use it for, which is basically as a...
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just happened to see this on newegg today:...
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afaik, most bad SSDs are because of no TRIM support or similar problems. That is, the data isn't rewritten or unwritten properly. In storage though, it's fine.
I could be mistaken, though.
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Ah, makes sense.
Once SSD's come down in price equal to that of an HDD or Hybrid I'll be much happier too. Plus the lower power consumption, lower heat dissipation, etc.
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just wanted to quote you guys so you'd get the little notification thing. :)
I finally put together my htpc, got xbmc up and running by using the openELEC installer and played a 1080p mkv....
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If your current openelec is the stable version, try the nightly build image and see if that solves the playback problem:
http://sources.openelec.tv/tmp/image/openelec-eden
If not then the...
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Depends what you mean by simpler games. 1080p video isn't that strenuous, especially if you have a decent GPU (either separate or on-board). However, you're well above the threshold for that and...
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How is a SSD + HDD quieter than an HDD?
I agree things will boot and load quickly with it. But most people who run HTPCs have them on 24/7 for weeks at a time and have WMC (or whatever their HTPC...
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Its there google tv box like apple tv. It came with a keyboard that had a small touchpad to it and what not.
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Ok, so the differences are minor, but they are there :P The SSD + HDD is quieter than purely an HDD setup, since with the SSD, all of the OS usage, along with any paging, or swapping of OS data from...
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its so tiny that I dont see how you could do a lot of typing on it. Its kind of like a huge remote. Yeah the lid is lame... I was hoping it could be folded under the keyboard. But it does turn the...
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I was JUST considering making an HTPC using a sandy bridge celeron and skipping a vid card in hopes of being able to use a smaller case. can the sandy bridge graphics not handle 1080p well? I know...
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If you're using CPU, then it's expected. However, you may be able to (by playing with settings) put the video load on the GPU. Then it should run smoothly.
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Considering the Zino HD 400 has HD 3200 graphics and can play most HD files fine if it's GPU accelerated, you should be ok. However, I don't have personal experience with the sandy bridge processors...
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your second link provides this info:
"Note: if you are using Intel Core-i3, make sure that you have enabled VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) hardware acceleration in the XBMC system settings to...
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you still will run into the same problem if you're not enabling your GPU in the software. I wish I could help you more but I'm unfamiliar with XBMC.
This link may help: ...
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That's why it will not be good at games aside from flash games or BigFish games.
