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Thread ID: 135301	2013-10-18 15:10:00	Raid0,1&5 on e35m1m pro, PCI 4xSATA, 5xPort SATA2 multiplier; Multiseat; Performance?	Mirddes (10)	Press F1

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1356470	2013-10-18 15:10:00	5259 A little project i have in my future, Focusing on the ASUS e35m1-m PRO my dad bought me before he died. I would like the system to focus on Storage and 4xMultiseat obviously going to use linux (windows and a thirdparty multiseat solution would only have its appeal if i was working with an i7) the harddrives alone costing almost $1800 i know its not going to be a gaming rig, not even a contender for SteamOS. it will be something 4 people can watch videos on, browse the web, youtube, facebook. all the while hosting up a vast media collection, documents, email, personal website etc, and probably have quite a lot of fun emulating MANY old systems. there are a lot of ports; 28 USB, 3 of which are internal and 6 of which are USB3; 2 6pin firewire400 ports; 14 SATA ports, 2 of which are eSATA; this is designed to be a central hub of computing activity. one box for my entire house hold. 2 sets of card readers is bound to come in handy enough usb for mouse,keyboard,headset,webcam for each user ( 16 ports gone right there) and PLENTY of ports left over for many other devices to be attached, gamepads (gotta love emulation),printerscanner,charge cables, etc The RAIDs 3 drive SSD Raid0, 120GB drives pricespy.co.nz $140 each 2 drive HDD raid1, Hotswap 2.5" 1TB 2.5" drives; 2 drives located off site; 4 drives total pricespy.co.nz $140 each ; 7200rpm 5 drive HDD Raid5. 4TB drives, 5+ year warranties pricespy.co.nz $336 each ; 7200rpm 2 Optical Drives, bluray/DVD $90/45 2 eSATA front+rear 5259 The Rest E35m1m pro 5 SATA3 + 1 eSATA www.asus.com 5 port SATA2 Port multiplier www.ebay.com 4 port SATA1 PCI card dx.com 1GB HD6450 pricespy.co.nz Modular PSU with support for 10 SATA devices pricespy.co.nz 4GB of ram, spare slot for another 4GB dimm (might actually need it if i ever implement multiseat) removable 4x 2.5" drive bays dx.com front card readers dx.com dx.com optical drives Bluray pricespy.co.nz DVD pricespy.co.nz 5.25 bezel www.digistor.com USB header multiplier www.newegg.com USB2 PCI card www.ebay.com Case pricespy.co.nz (i do have something else, very not fancy, i simply run out of space for mounting the final SSD and will use velcro) Bay Converter 3.5 to 2x2.5 dx.com (dx.com) tl;dr over the top? is there a linux that makes multiseat easy? hopeful this inspires someone.	Mirddes (10)
1356471	2013-10-19 14:35:00	i can't be give pause to the notion that there may be more than enough usb ports and the USB PCI card is wasteful. (not to mention the internal port is shared with an external port, ew) without it we have 19 external usb ports, 2 internal +4x4port USB hubs attached at rear IO, 1 per user (makes assigning devices easier) a total of 31+2 this leaves 15+2 usb ports for various devices along with freeing a PCI slot. and suggestons on what to use it for? was thinkgin TV tuner or FM transmitter. tv transmitter would be cool my earlier calculations were incorrect. a hdaudio Y splitter will also come in handy mirroring the 2 front mic/heaphone jacks. my current case is suitable for this project and its 4th 5.25" drive bay would allow for a fan controller. however with only 5 backplanes in use (2xUSB, GPU, SATA1, SATA2, TV/FMTUNER) this fan controller looks ideal pricespy.co.nz plenty of sensors for the raid arrays how much power are these many drives in raid going to consume? what to use the last slot for i wonder? ultimately these modifications makes the rear of the pc decidedly rear and the front very tidy. accessing rear firewire/esata wont be the easiest	Mirddes (10)
1356472	2013-10-20 05:37:00	To answer the last question, post #1 www.userful.com I've done multiseat with Windows when playing about one day - but never with Linux. ( have a look through that site: :) For Windows based, I actually used MS's Multiseat software, there is also softxpand (www.miniframe.com) Downloaded it, but never tried it.	wainuitech (129)
1356473	2013-10-20 19:16:00	Im not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve here?...4 PCs in one, but 1 display?	SolMiester (139)
1356474	2013-10-21 03:06:00	Im not sure I understand what you are trying to achieve here?...4 PCs in one, but 1 display? 4 PCs in one; 4 displays kinda like a mainframe	Mirddes (10)
1356475	2013-10-21 21:27:00	Each to his own I guess, personally, I dont think a budget dual core going to be much fun for 4 PCs, Id rather use the system as a media File server with maybe VDI Virtual machines for tablet connectivity...however let us know how you go.	SolMiester (139)
1356476	2013-10-21 22:47:00	Each to his own I guess, personally, I dont think a budget dual core going to be much fun for 4 PCs, Id rather use the system as a media File server with maybe VDI Virtual machines for tablet connectivity...however let us know how you go. 1.6ghz dual core with 2 directx11 GPUs i remember how hard i used to push my 1.9ghz athlonXP 2600+ barton back in the day. this is more than enough for web browsing, a software raid and watching videos. even with multiple users. and considring the unique for factor it definitely wasnt budget. the board cost ~$300 just gotta figure out how to consistently offload video processing to the gpus	Mirddes (10)
1356477	2013-10-21 22:51:00	maybe i am open to using windows instead of linux. i have downloaded windows multipoint server 2011 www.microsoft.com consider with adequate hardware and license up to 20 clients are supported with one host, i am sure my hardware is more than capable for 4 clients. an i7 would be enough for 20. it really doesnt take much.	Mirddes (10)
1356478	2013-10-23 22:25:00	ive got a problem none of the video outputs show anything.	Mirddes (10)
1356479	2013-10-24 10:29:00	seriously though how do i troubleshoot the lack of video?	Mirddes (10)
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