2010-10-14, 15:58
I just got my barebones Foxconn in the mail today. But I am kinda lost as to what to do next. Well not lost, but just looking for people who have the experience to guide me.
I did alot of research in past few months on ION systems and what not, was about to buy a Acer Revo 1600 a few months back for around $200 but was in process of moving and all, so instead took my extra computer and added a $20 ION card and have been happy ever since. Now I have that "ich" to upgrade. Started my putting the pieces together for a unRaid server which minus the memory and parity drive is ready to go. But then I saw the deal on the Foxconn and had to get it. I am going to move the other PC to my room.
The Foxconn is perfect IMO for what I want to do with it. I dont need space since everything is shared over the network, so was just going to install XMBC Live on a flash drive and run it off there. Dont need the hard drive right now, maybe if right deal on a cheap SSD comes along, I will consider moving over.
I ONLY have xvids and divx movies and tv shows, I have such a huge collection I would need like $1000 to upgrade the TBs to upgrade all to HD stuff, and frankly I do care that much, DVD quality is good enough for me.
So the Foxconn should be able to stream all that just fine.
Anyway what do you guys think?
I know there are issues with Wifi on this system and xmbc live, so I will have to pull my hair out of that, I dont have much if any linux experience.
Also I usually run Aeon Showmix.....would like to run newest Dharma, but dont know if that is avail for live yet.....
Input? Thoughts? Suggestions? Open to anything.....
Thanks alot.
I did alot of research in past few months on ION systems and what not, was about to buy a Acer Revo 1600 a few months back for around $200 but was in process of moving and all, so instead took my extra computer and added a $20 ION card and have been happy ever since. Now I have that "ich" to upgrade. Started my putting the pieces together for a unRaid server which minus the memory and parity drive is ready to go. But then I saw the deal on the Foxconn and had to get it. I am going to move the other PC to my room.
The Foxconn is perfect IMO for what I want to do with it. I dont need space since everything is shared over the network, so was just going to install XMBC Live on a flash drive and run it off there. Dont need the hard drive right now, maybe if right deal on a cheap SSD comes along, I will consider moving over.
I ONLY have xvids and divx movies and tv shows, I have such a huge collection I would need like $1000 to upgrade the TBs to upgrade all to HD stuff, and frankly I do care that much, DVD quality is good enough for me.
So the Foxconn should be able to stream all that just fine.
Anyway what do you guys think?
I know there are issues with Wifi on this system and xmbc live, so I will have to pull my hair out of that, I dont have much if any linux experience.
Also I usually run Aeon Showmix.....would like to run newest Dharma, but dont know if that is avail for live yet.....
Input? Thoughts? Suggestions? Open to anything.....
Thanks alot.