I have 4 such htpc's based on the zotac ionitx board. It's wonderful. With VDPAU you can get 1080p video without any issues and it uses AT MOST 30 watts of power, but normally more like 15.
I use opensolaris as my nas, currently in a norco 4020 case with 20 1TB drives on 3 AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards, opensolaris is installed on 2 ssd's which i have inside the norco, not in hot swap bays. I used a q9550 cpu which has turned out to be somewhat overkill EVEN running xen and using 2 vm's On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Simon Breden <sbre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have used OpenSolaris on the NAS and XBMC as the media player, and it > works greatl. See: > > http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/08/home-fileserver-zfs-setup/ and > http://breden.org.uk/2009/05/10/home-fileserver-zfs-file-systems/ and > http://breden.org.uk/2009/06/20/home-fileserver-media-center/ > > For the HTPC, media client computer, the NVidia ION platform looks good, > running Linux and XBMC. > > ASRock ION 330 + Linux + XBMC = A nice reasonably priced HTPC > This small, quiet HTPC based on a low-power Intel Atom 330 dual core > processor, running XBMC on Linux looks like it should be a nice little Home > Theatre PC. It uses the NVidia ION graphics platform and seems to have > sufficient power for displaying most types of video. Price around £250 / > €280 / $350 as of October 2009. Includes 2 GB RAM and a 320 GB internal hard > drive, but as it has built in wired GbE, this gizmo will hook up to your NAS > and act as a video client. Looks good. Add a USB infra-red receiver dongle > and remote control and you’re set! > > See here for more info: > http://xbmc.org/blittan/2009/10/12/asrock-ion-330/ > > Cheers, > Simon > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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