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**Evildead666** · 29 July 2012, 10:40

Also got a USB to SCSI cable for my external Magneto-Optical drives.
Thankfully I seem to have got one of the last ones, afaik, the chips they use are no longer in production.

edit : Will have piccies when I get to building it. Just waiting on that GPU.

**dZeus** · 30 July 2012, 07:42

a while ago I also upgraded my NAS from a Linksys NSLU2 @ 266 Mhz and 32MB RAM to a QNAP with Marvell Kirkwood @ 1.2 GHz, 512MB RAM and Gigabit LAN, running Debian Wheezy. Uses less than 15 Watts with 2 x 500GB notebook drives connected.

I'm just wondering: what do you run on your NAS that requires so much horsepower?

**cjolley** · 30 July 2012, 10:39

Originally posted by dZeus View Post

I'm just wondering: what do you run on your NAS that requires so much horepower?

It's spelled whorepower.
And large video files would be my guess

**Jammrock** · 30 July 2012, 11:55

I use an HP ProLiant N40L micro server with an Athlon Turion II Neo 40L CPU (1.5GHz dual-core x86 chip), 4GB RAM and WHS 2011. I haven't measured what total system power consumption is, but the CPU has a max TDP of 15W so I doubt it uses more than 25W under max load.

Using Serviio and an updated ffmpeg.exe (better GPU acceleration support) I can transcode 720p video in real time to my DirecTV Media Share (which is picky about the codecs used), which allows my kids to stream their entire movie collection on demand. And it backs up all my stuff.

I thought about building a box but I got the micro server with a 2TB drive for $280, which is cheaper than any of the good 4-bay NAS devices from the usual suspects or what I could build myself. And I can load any operating system or combination of applications on it I chose instead of whatever preloaded stuff someone else chooses.

When Hyper-V Server 2012 comes out I think I'll load that on a USB drive and do some virtualization.

**Evildead666** · 4 August 2012, 08:58

Originally posted by cjolley View Post

It's spelled whorepower.
And large video files would be my guess

LOL.

I use it also as my everyday PC as well, for watching movies and music and web.
Just wanted to get a Motherboard capable of RAID 5 should I want to go down that route later on, and it had to have the 6 internal sata slots for all the drives.

I also wanted to build the most powerful system I could in the Chenbro Nas case.

Just to prove it could be done. And I won't be making any upgrades to the Nas ever again, except for HDD's when the larger drives come down in price.
I can install any OS on it I like, and it will fly.

**Evildead666** · 8 September 2012, 05:01

SO, an update is on order.

The PC went together sort of OK. It works at least

I have a 6670-LP in atm, since the 7750-LP is taking its sweet time.

I can still game at 1680x1050 with everything at high
Skyrim, no problems with full view distance and all the options on except AntiAliasing. ~40 fps
Call Of Pripyat also works with the view distance at full, and with the Complete Mod : Advanced installed. also ~40 fps
Haven't installed anything else yet, but i'm happily surprised at just how powerful this combination is.

I'll post a picture of whthe rig looks like now, and you might just notice what went wrong.

**Evildead666** · 9 September 2012, 04:45

The beast

lol, see the problem ?

Heres a few screencaps from Call of Pripyat at 50% size. The FPS is low due to taking the screencap, F12 doing two simultaneous screencaps, one in jpg with Stalker Game, and one with Fraps in BMP. I hadn't realised that Stalker had a screencap function built in, and managed to choose the same key for Fraps screencap.
I'm usually in the high 30's outside, and well over inside.

I'll take a couple more screencaps later, disabling the screencap in fraps.

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