[dhead]

@RockerC

Personally I would stay away from the TBS Matrix, it scream amature bad design all over the place.

First of all this supposed to be an end user device so why the ugly laser cutted acrylic case ?a big company like TBS can afford proper injection molding.
What about a proper hdd slot or even USM port ? even the hobbiest Cubietruck got a proper solution to attach 2.5" hdd.

Volume buttons ? are you kidding me ? why one would need these on a pvr server or even on a XBMC client / HTPC ?
My guess is that TBS just took an off the shelf design of a development board from some Chinese pcb design house and rebranded it without even an after thought.

I recommend also to enter the TBS forum and see how the developers connected the pcie tuner, what a joke, they could easily design the board to accept a full pcie addon card properly as a dual board solution but they didn't as my guess is that they didn't even design the board.

And the active cooling just shows that they don't know even how to design a pcb with proper heat dissipation.

I don't see any reason to go with this device, I would wait for SolidRun's Carrier One / HummingBoard or get one of the available quality development boards.