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My windows media center collection is about 6TB now and I need a better backup solution. I am leaning towards the Synology DS413J or DS413 using their hybrid raid and 4 x 4TB hard drives. Any and all suggestions would be very much appreciated.

I am decently familiar with traditional...

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I would like to set up network storage for my home to store recorded TV and other videos from my library. Some of the videos are irreplacable and I would like to have some kind of backup setup (RAID 1 I was thinking) and I leave my HTPC on all of the time. I have 3 basic ideas

1. install 2...

So I used to run WHS v1, then I participated in Vail beta, then upgraded to WHS 2011 and was all fine and happy as I love the products not only for storage, but also for the client PC backups.

So 2012 wasn't a great year. I first had 1 of my Raid 10 drives fail, then the main OS drive failed, and...

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I just built a home server for storage/media streaming to home htpcs. I record a lot up to 24 hrs a day and I would prefer to have only one machine on 24/7.

With windows 8 I know I can do WMC to record tv and home group/networking and play to to share and stream.

I have never used any home...

I have a short rack so I'm looking for something rack mountable.

Also wondering if the hardware sold on Monoprice is decent. I've gotten cables from them but never something like a switch.

Seems like a stupid thread. But I have to ditch Crashplan. It just reeks havoc on my windows media center machine and network connected devices. Even if it is supposedly not running, it frequently causes freezes I have a 50GB connection and a wired gigabit network and no matter what I tweak in...

Ok so I have been using the 2 tb Seagate go flex desktop as my backup drive

However, I have gone through 4 of them now.

They work for awhile and then eventually it seems like they burnout from overheating.

What external drive would you guys recommend to use as a backup drive....

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I am experiencing issues with choppy video on recorded tv and with stuttering video on live tv on my televisions using 2 XBox 360s as extenders.

My setup is an a HP Ivy Bridge with 8 GB RAM, Ceton Quad Core, and Verizon FIOS as my cable/internet provider. I have done quite a bit of things...

Background. I've tried the Synology forums and have not received much response from their iSCSI message board. I am trying to find a solution to iSCSI MCS traffic issue. I am also looking for recommendations on using VLANs in a HTPC environment.

Problem. The HTPC has one NIC and the NAS has four...

I figured I would use this medium in order to show off my home network, including the HTPC and extenders and fish for some new ideas.

First, I went to monoprice and grabbed 1000' of CAT6 and all the jacks/plates/etc... that I could possibly need. I also bought a 12U rack and put my cisco equipment...

I feel like this should be easy, but I've been trying to figure it out for a while. Since reinstalling Windows 7 on my laptop, I can't access the hard drive in my HTPC from the laptop. The folders on the drive are shared with everyone and I can access them from other computers in the house, just...

I'm looking for suggestion on what kind of IP camera to buy. There are so many to choose from. Neweggs advance search actually lacks in this department.

I looking for:

HD recording
2 way Audio
IP based
Night Vision -(would be nice not a deal breaker)
Can Control from Iphone
Pan Tilt Zoom wide...

OK, so I have previously run cat6 through my house and am familiar with the basics there, I have also connected point to point using wall jacks, nothing difficult there. What I have yet to do is create whole end to end cat 6 runs complete with RJ45 connections on each end. I want to start replacing...

i'm having an issue with playing back blu-rays iso across my network stuttering. I think the issue is with the disks(WD Green Drive), the stuttering lessens when i optimize the disk but is still present. It could be a combination of things also. I looking to see if other people have issues...

This probably isn't the best place for my question, but I don't feel like finding a new forum and signing up, lol. Are any of you using remote desktop through an SSH tunnel on an Android phone? I do it with my computer, and had been doing it with my old winmo phone, but I haven't got it working on...

I have 4 xbox 360s in the house that stream up to 15MB (blue ray encoded) video each.

I went from a netgear 8 port (the old metal one) which i though was a great switch but unfortunately I learned that streaming video requires a fairly large buffer to stream constantly/smoothly. That one had a...

So I have 2 WMC PCs. One is downstairs on a hardwired connection. The other is upstairs on either a wireless A connection or a netgear homelink connection (ethernet over A/C electrical lines).

Because of the type of circuit breaker we have for the bedroom, the connection using the powerline...

I am about to rebuild my WHS and switch from WHS to Windows 7, mainly because I do not use the features of WHS and want to be able to run regular programs on it as well. I am worried about over burdening my network (gigabit) and/or over burdening my server.

1 - I plan on having 3 Ceton Echos + 3...

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I just setup windows server essentials 2012. I configured a domain and worked through what I believe is a terrible wizard that migrates local accounts to domain accounts. But anyway is there integration with windows media center like with whs 2011? I can seem to find documentation on...

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I currently have windows 7 64 bit, a ceton Infinitv 4 and a couple of echos and I am about to activate my mcard though comcast or verizon. This is a separate network from my internet and I dont plan on hooking this to the internet.

My question is, will i be able to view the shows through my...

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I have an HP MediaServer (can't see model on case).

The main hard drive failed last year, and I finally got around to rebuilding the media server with a new hard drive. I downloaded the 2011 home server and installed it, its running great and I like the new server software (I had the...

Simply put, there has to be a way to make the data physically look like it is there on the server so you can stream it on RA. Or access documents while I'm away from home.

I have tried junctions and dfs to no avail. I do have a SAN Server, but that can't make an iSCSI drive out of a physical disk....

I currently have a Windows Home Server v1 running at home, which has served me and my family successfully and faithfully for several years. I used it mainly to stream movies, and to play TV shows recorded with Windows Media Center 7 to 4 Xbox 360s, to store music and family pictures and backup some...

What remote would you experts choose for controlling WMC, a Sony XBR, and an Onkyo AV receiver? I'm tired of all these remotes! (and my wife can't watch TV....