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Running v19 happily here, I don't mind the FN warnings. :-)

If you want to build something yourself; Ri-Vier RVS206A ; 150 euro Seasonic OEM 400W SS-400L2U 80+ Gold - Modular ; 119 euro AsRock C2750D4I ; 343 euro Kingston KVR16N11K2/16 ; 169 euro And you got yourself a 8-core 2U kick-asss server right there that sips power. Replace the fans to make it...

So what's up with these white label drives? Why/how?

This was with the pre-production sample. Freenas has been running fine on the asrock c2750 board, confirmed by several users on the FN forums.

80MB/s with 32GB ram? hmm, I would expect a bit higher transfer speeds

Tbh, haven't tested this yet with blurays. (except for ripping) XBMC can play unsecured blurays, and secured blurays can be played while running something like anyDVDHD in the background apparently. It decrypts the streams. Not sure if there is a linux alternative

At the moment running xbmcbuntu (ubuntu with xbmc installed), and very fond of it. I used Windows 7 and XBMC before, but it wasn't just 'the thing'. Also tried 8.1 but had issues with a memory leak in higher resolutions and fullscreen mode. Linux is just awesome, updating everything with just...

They're DVB-S2 tuners, so they can be used to watch satellite tv. (ASTRA/Hotbird) Encrypted channels can be watched using your smartcard.

http://forums.servethehome.com/htpc-network-media-player-forum/3259-%5Bfinished%5D-my-parents-htpc-build.html#post28113 :cool:

My Parents' MP Build A XBMC story. What's the problem? My parents want a 'one fits all' approach: they want to watch movies & series, watch tv, view images, record all they want and have a nice, little quiet 'black box'. And everything must be commandable by one device; remote, tablet...

FYI, I built a htpc for my parents; quiet/passive, xbmc, 1080p bluray playback and 4 DVB-S2 tuners (tbs 6985) on xbmcbuntu. CPU is an i3 at 3.4Ghz, could have gone with less but wanted to make sure everything stayed smooth when extracting with Sabznd. Mobo was that popular Pro3. Havent really...

ri-vier.eu has a good 12 bay one. (2U)