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Originally Posted by rawfuls
With that motherboard, you might as well overclock, as much as you can without gaining any temperature increases.
AS for the power, I'd go with something SeaSonic rebranded, mainly because I just love them so dearly.
I've heard a few OCZ flame-ups, but nothing huge.
Might be better suited with a ~550-600 Antec/Corsair/Seasonic/PC&C.. etc.
My opinions entirely.
Your HTPC is going to be a faster build than my main gaming rid... sad.  |
Well, I did quite a bit of reading before I got the PS and the model I got tested very favorably and maintained good efficiency. Some others didn't do so well (when pushed, they would shut down or whatever).
And don't feel bad, the HTPC if going to be faster than my main rig as well. But since it will be used for so many things, I felt the power is necessary. About the overclocking: I may or may not. At least I got the hardware so I can if I want. If I do, it won't be extreme - maybe something like a 5% O/C just for a little extra power.
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Originally Posted by Thirdgen89GTA
You should look into Robocopy, or RSync for the mirroring purposes.
For Rsync the command would be:
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rsync -va --delete $source $destination
This would perfectly create a mirror of the drive onto the destination. It will also intelligently update the destination drive so you aren't copying files that are already there. I used this to mirror my photo library, iTunes, and Movies folders.
If you run a scheduled task, it could probably run the batch file containing RSync.
For Robocopy you would use this command:
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robocopy /zb /e /purge $source $destination
/zb : copies all files in restartable backup mode.
/e : copies all files and sub-directories regardless of content
/purge : purges all files in the destination that no longer exist on the source. |
Thanks, I'll keep those in mind. I've heard of Robocopy before but not Rsync. In the past, I just build my own batch files and schedule them as tasks. But it would be nice to have a more intelligent syncing function so I'm not copying things that haven't changed needlessly. My external drive uses USB3, but even so, transferring multi-GB takes a while.
I've already ripped around 70 DVDs, but man, this takes a while! I use DVDFab which is the easiest method I've found that rips only the main movies while being able to bypass all the encryption methods - event the newer ones. I used to use DVDDecryptor and DVDShrink, but they are getting long in the tooth and there are more and more DVDs they can't handle.