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Ask Slashdot: Building a Home Media Center/Small Server In a Crawlspace?
An anonymous reader writes "I've decided it's time for me to build a separate machine specifically for use as a Media Center/Small Home Server. My wife and I haven't had cable TV in years, instead relying entirely on Netflix, other streaming sites, and hard copies we've bought over the years. Having just finished ripping our entire media collection (CDs, DVDs, and even our vinyls and VHS with the help of a capture card and some sweet digital voodoo) to a couple HDDs, I'm feeling froggy. Up until now we've been using WDTV Live, and it's been pretty snazzy, but I want to upgrade to a dedicated media machine instead of piggybacking off of my office computer. It'll be a Windows based machine utilizing Plex, and it's going in the crawlspace of the house. The crawlspace in question is unfinished, but I do have a dry concrete slab down there where I can put/mount/assemble something. Cooling won't be an issue obviously, and I am keeping a close eye on hardware specs with regards to moisture. It is still a crawlspace though. What would be a good setup to to house the hardware? Priorities being to safeguard against moisture, vermin, and dirt. Modified PC Tower? Rack? Build an enclosure? Something I haven't considered?
Please assume I'm stubborn and absolutely dead-set on putting it in the crawlspace to avoid the discussion devolving into the 'best' place to put a media machine." Do you have a question to Ask Slashdot? Fire away, with details, using our submissions form.
Please assume I'm stubborn and absolutely dead-set on putting it in the crawlspace to avoid the discussion devolving into the 'best' place to put a media machine." Do you have a question to Ask Slashdot? Fire away, with details, using our submissions form.
Over traditional linux kernel for crawlspace media center?
I realize you're dead set on keeping it your media center in the crawlspace.
But have you considered moving your TV and couch into the crawlspace as well?
Need space? Get one of the 5TB external Seagate drives for $130 bucks and find a way to hide the drive behind the TV.
I understood the OP was asking for a way to destroy an HTPC install by putting it in a place where no reasonable one. I don't recall him asking for advice on how to destroy the data quickly as well...
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
I am now picturing your car being stolen by joyriding mice who wrapped it around a telephone pole and then stumbled away from the wreckage in drunken laughter.
I refuse to entertain any other possible meaning of your statement.
There's zero fucking reason to put an HTPC in a crawl space.
If they get an inefficient enough system, it may self-heat enough to keep the humidity out of the enclosure. Build this thing with a Pentium 133. Better yet, quad Pentium 133s.
Could also be he doesn't want his wife to know where he's physically keeping his pr0n server.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Subtract a couple of 3's?
What are you talking about? 11 *is* 3.