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The ultimate Mac media setup

Written by Jacob Head

Saturday, 16 June 2007

Most Mac users eventually want to put together a home media center involving their favorate computer brand. Mac modder Jamesatfish decided he was going to set up the ultimate Mac media/iTunes center. He had the following requirements:Apple-based, easy to use, all-in-one (or at least mostly) and network ready.

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Comments (2)

	16-06-2007 12:58
	The Pioneers do seem pricey, but as for drive space, 1TB is nowhere near enough. I could probably raise close to that in media content spread across 3 or 4 machines and some extra hard drives. The only reason I don't have plenty more is that I don't have 5TB to dump it all on. I have a tendency to record and archive movies with my EyeTV, this will kill space very quickly (when you aren't so fussy about films like me). I reckon 5.6TB might last me a year or so if I bought an Xserve RAID tomorrow. But if I was buying new, I'd get the smallest one and fill it up with 80GB drive modules (I can order them as spares) only I would sell the 80GB drives and swap in bigger ones 300 or 400GB each. Much better value for money, and all the drives would be cheaper and easier to replace and have a 5 year Seagate warranty on them instead of the 1 or 3 you get from Apple. Registered

Waragainstsleep

	16-06-2007 11:13
	Kinda a waste He could of done a little more and skipped a few things. Like a projector or a huge LCD. Didn't need all of that hard drive space. 1TB is plenty, 5.6TB is overkill. Could of gotten the Pioneer DVD-RW DL a lot cheaper. Registered

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