[clue] HTPC systems?

[nick pitlosh]

Look up pxe, ltsp, VMware unity, use myth. Storage is the most important
aspect of this and there are quite a few people that misunderstand load and
io operation wait time. Get small ssds and raid them together to resolve
that. Using a ram disk for buffer is also an excellent idea.

Back that up with large disks on a nice multichannel Sata card and use port
multipliers until the Sata channels are completely saturated. On Sata 3,
you can expect each channel to need 5 to ten spindle disks to saturate the
link. Transfer on ssds is exceptional but expensive, expect a newer ssd to
be around 3 times faster in throughput, but 2 to 3 orders of magnitude
faster in terms of random io. Ram is 2 to 3 orders of magnitude faster than
that.

That's my 2 cents and I wish you patience and clarity. Don't be a fanboy.

Nick

On Sunday, July 8, 2012, Sean LeBlanc wrote:

> Thanks for all the feedback guys. Now I have some food for thought.
>
> As for gaming - what sort of hardware do others use for a game controller?
>
> What about TV style remotes?
>
> Are game controllers and TV remotes hard to set up with Linux?
>
> Another hardware question: do remote keyboards tend to play well with
> Linux these days?
>
>
> As for how I intended to play video files - locally or not - I was
> hoping to find a machine that was as quiet as possible for HTPC, so
> probably it would be playing them over network, either by mounting
> Samba, NFS (or sshfs?) or streaming via DLNA.
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