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My TV room computer has finally died
I knew this day was coming.
I watch movies, lots of them. Been renting DVDs and copy to hard drive for years. Must have 20 Tb now with making a copy of each movie on two drives. Got eight drives to go inside the case and two more on external USBs.
I tried replacing the power supply - 850 amps. Tried an all new OS install, no joy. Problem is it seeing and running the huge number of hard drives. I do need to go through and individually check each HD.
I have a HUGE case that holds eight drives plus the large power supply with room to spare.
The motherboard is OLD. Next job is to replace it.
That's where I could use advice. I just need a decent MB with 8 SATA, not sure what else to look for as I have not kept up with the technology.
I will need a graphics card that runs two monitors - one is the TV - HDMI, the other is a regular computer monitor.
I went to Newegg and found AMD motherboards have far more selection when requiring 8 SATA slots. Also checked off 4or5 egg customer rating and got down the small number to choose from. see pic from Newegg page.
Could somebody advise which MB to get from here? also which processor and memory to go with it. Could use a suggestion on which graphics card also. for that matter, I should replace the sound card now too.
I am weak on this stuff, it will be a real struggle to get running. I am tempted to hire out building the box to a pro.
I knew this day was coming.
I watch movies, lots of them. Been renting DVDs and copy to hard drive for years. Must have 20 Tb now with making a copy of each movie on two drives. Got eight drives to go inside the case and two more on external USBs.
I tried replacing the power supply - 850 amps. Tried an all new OS install, no joy. Problem is it seeing and running the huge number of hard drives. I do need to go through and individually check each HD.
I have a HUGE case that holds eight drives plus the large power supply with room to spare.
The motherboard is OLD. Next job is to replace it.
That's where I could use advice. I just need a decent MB with 8 SATA, not sure what else to look for as I have not kept up with the technology.
I will need a graphics card that runs two monitors - one is the TV - HDMI, the other is a regular computer monitor.
I went to Newegg and found AMD motherboards have far more selection when requiring 8 SATA slots. Also checked off 4or5 egg customer rating and got down the small number to choose from. see pic from Newegg page.
Could somebody advise which MB to get from here? also which processor and memory to go with it. Could use a suggestion on which graphics card also. for that matter, I should replace the sound card now too.
I am weak on this stuff, it will be a real struggle to get running. I am tempted to hire out building the box to a pro.