{"id":1161,"date":"2011-08-07T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2013-02-03T21:42:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T10:42:34","slug":"more-new-htpc-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1161","title":{"rendered":"more new HTPC build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided on the Gigabyte P55A UD6 because I wanted the maximum internal componentry for SATA connection. This board has 8 of them, 2 of which are SATA3. One for the boot drive (Vertex Turbo SSD, which I flashed up 2 firmware levels &#8211; much easier to do before installing OS!), one optical BD drive, one 2TB main drive for recorded TV, and 5 drives for saved videos.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d had some prior experience with RAID and have been fairly unhappy &#8211; the implementation of RAID-0 just did not justify the risk of complete data loss for marginal speed increase. RAID-1 gave internal mirroring, but at the cost of space and speed. RAID-5 might have been a go-er except that I have been reading that in the event of a single drive failure, the likelihood of the other drives rapidly following suit is quite high. RAID 10 didn&#8217;t suit, again complexity but definite lact of space.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted bang for buck, so formatted 5x 2TB drives under GUID and connected them as JBODs. 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This board has 8 of them, 2 of which are SATA3. One for the boot drive (Vertex Turbo SSD, which I flashed up 2 firmware levels &#8211; much easier to do before installing OS!), one optical BD drive, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/?p=1161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">more new HTPC build<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[311,310,113,308,309,52],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-drobo","tag-gigabyte-p55a-ud6","tag-htpc","tag-raid","tag-ssd","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lakegnotuk.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}