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My new Media Server doesn’t come with everything to play all file types. If I didn’t want to play files in Windows Media Player or Media Center, that wouldn’t be a problem. I highly recommend the Video Lan Client (VLC) as it plays just about every file type you throw at it. There are times [...]

I have posted recently about the Media Server I have built. The server holds many hours of music ripped from CD. Call me old school but I would much rather buy CDs and rip them myself. The media provides a back up should everything go south. Also, I get the most accurate sound quality from [...]

Last time I talked about the parts needed for the media server I built. I thought I would take a moment and show how I have the disks set up.
At left is a screen shot from the storage manager. I partitioned one of the 320GB hard drives into 2 partitions. The C: partition holds [...]

Media Server Closet

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Here is a photo of my completed server closet. The middle shelf with keyboard and monitor is just the right height to accomplish the goal of a walk-up workstation as well.
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In my house, we are using laptops more and more. All kinds of data on a single little laptop hard drives makes me nervous. Also, without some form of central storage it is hard to share files. What to do about it?
There are a myriad of options. I could buy a large USB drive that [...]