Good enough for HD GBPVR system?

[txinga]

Greetings,

I'm looking at the following collection to upgrade my GBPVR machine. I have a Hauppauge HVR 1600 tuner to put in it, 2 1.5TB SATA drives and one 750GB PATA drive.

I will be installing Win7 on the machine. Would have been WHS (Windows Home Server) but carbonite doesn't appear to play nice with WHS.

This machine will eventually go in the Living Room connected to an HDTV that has yet to be purchased. Right now my machine is just hooked up to a 19" LCD monitor. I use an MVP at them moment to stream to the LR.

I haven't decided on a video card. Any recommendations on what would be a good fit with this combo would be greatly appreciated.

Here's the list I have in my basket at newegg:

AMD Phenom 9850 2.5GHz Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Black Edition Processor Model HD985ZXAJ4BGH - OEM
Item #: N82E16819103286

GIGABYTE GA-MA770-UD3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX AMD Motherboard
Item #: N82E16813128376

G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-2GBPK
Item #: N82E16820231144

hec HP585D RETAIL 585W ATX12V Power Supply
Item #: N82E16817339012

Total 228.75 with 3 day shipping

Thanks for looking,

Txinga

[psycik]

Would have been WHS (Windows Home Server) but carbonite doesn't appear to play nice with WHS.

What was your problem? i have carbonite on mine?

It doesn't back up the main shares, so you need a "backup drive" and sync to the backup drive. Then use carbonite to backup the backup drive. Make sense?

[Jaggy]

I use an MVP at them moment to stream to the LR. Txinga

This is probability a stupid question but as you are currently using an MVP have you thought about just replacing it with an NMT at about $13x.00? They are small, silent, have composite, component & hdmi connections & play up to 1080p, are fairly well fully integrated with GB-PVR & these days are just about PnP to setup.

[txinga]

@ psycik
It does. So the "backup" drive could be another drive installed in the same box? Just not placed into the WHS shares? I'm currently using my GBPVR server to back up my laptop and another desktop via the network, then back that up to carbonite. I'm the up and coming President of the Reduncancy Department of Redundancy.

@Jaggy
Yes I'm looking at one of those too. Keep the WHS/GBPVR system in the back where it is. I currently use the GBPVR server in the same room as the treadmill. That way I have entertainment while I trudge on...
Just debating in my head to have a fully internet enabled machine in the LR. The thought of perusing ebay on a 50" is enticing you know. Of course I have that now with the laptop, just not a 50" screen.

[psycik]

@ psycik
It does. So the "backup" drive could be another drive installed in the same box? Just not placed into the WHS shares? I'm currently using my GBPVR server to back up my laptop and another desktop via the network, then back that up to carbonite. I'm the up and coming President of the Reduncancy Department of Redundancy.

Nah I'd be the President of the Redundancy Department... My photos are duplicated on the Home Server, Copied to the GBPVR server in the lounge, backup up to a backup drive on the home server (more about that in a bit), backed up on carbonite, backed up on a portable drive....AND using flickrsync privately synchronised to flickr...

You may now bow to your leader....

So any way, Windows home server has two types of drives - storage drives and backups. The storage drives are used by the shares. Carbonite can' back these up. But, if you add a drive - USB or internal, and assign it to the backup pool. It just becomes a drive with a drive letter (storage pools drives dont). Then use something like synctoy to echo from the WHS shares to the "backup drive" Carbonite with backup this content of this backup drive quite happily.

[ACTCMS]

Nah I'd be the President of the Redundancy Department... My photos are duplicated on the Home Server, Copied to the GBPVR server in the lounge, backup up to a backup drive on the home server (more about that in a bit), backed up on carbonite, backed up on a portable drive....AND using flickrsync privately synchronised to flickr...

Sorry young man, but I think you might be eligible for Vice-President... I keep my Photos, MP3s and Home movies stored on my domain server. Then I have a copy on a second disk in my domain server, further copies on each of my two GBPVR servers, copies on each of three USB drives, another copy on a small portable USB drive (which I keep by the bed in case of fire during the night) and as if that wasn't enough, I have further copies on my daughters' systems - one lives about 70 miles away and the other 300 miles away. So that's one original and 9 backups, although I have to admit that the two offsite backup copies are only syncronised about 5-6 times a year.

I rest my case...:p

[psycik]

Sorry young man, but I think you might be eligible for Vice-President... I keep my Photos, MP3s and Home movies stored on my domain server. Then I have a copy on a second disk in my domain server, further copies on each of my two GBPVR servers, copies on each of three USB drives, another copy on a small portable USB drive (which I keep by the bed in case of fire during the night) and as if that wasn't enough, I have further copies on my daughters' systems - one lives about 70 miles away and the other 300 miles away. So that's one original and 9 backups, although I have to admit that the two offsite backup copies are only syncronised about 5-6 times a year.

I rest my case...:p

I bow to the greatness that comes with age....we're not worthy.

[ACTCMS]

I bow to the greatness that comes with age....we're not worthy.

LOL

When the time comes for the Master to go to the great PVR in the sky, I'm sure you will make a very worthy successor...

[txinga]

Hmm... good info. What about virus protection on whs?

[txinga]

Hmm... good info. What about virus protection on whs?