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Sorry I dont have a decent camera (the one on my phone is just awful).

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Just a quick update: Don't ever go with ATI/AMD if you want to use linux & hw acceleration in flash. Spent whole day trying to make it work without success... popped in old Nvidia G210 and it all works pretty much out of the box.

Even the multi channel PCM works great on Nvidia

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I remember reading some warnings about the crossflash when I bought my P150EM. Are things changed? It's 'safe' to crossflash?

Update:

I received my first set of parts (everything else except 2x2TB drives).

The parts I ended up are following:

MB & CPU: SAPPHIRE TECHNOLOGY PURE White E350

RAM: 2x4GB DDR3 (1600MHz but MB can utilize it as 1066, oh well it was the cheapest set of 8GB)

HDD: 2x Toshiba DT01ACA (2TB)

CASE: Cooler Master Elite 120 (As Timohour suggested)

PSU: One noisy leftover from dead computer - will be replaced soon

After receiving the parts It became quite clear that its too shiny to put in some closet so I tried to figure out how to utilize it completely so I went with custom OpenMediaVault setup (with Ubuntu 12.04 because Debian Squeeze dont seem to support VA-api with AMD). Currently I have it up and running pretty nicely, just waiting for the actual HDD's. If this doesnt work well in 'real life scenarion' I might just go back and install FreeNAS to it.

All the feedback is appreciated!

Thanks all for the feedback! I went with the custom built route in the end. I might have it up & running next week if anyone is interested to hear how it turns out.

Maybe I turned that idea down too fast. I've been reading about the freenas since the first post it was mentioned and as I keep reading, the idea seems more and more appealing.

What comes to the power consumption, those AMD E240/E350 processors doesnt seem too bad.

This is going offtopic now but does anyone have first hand experience on the filesystems on those? Is the ZFS worth buying ~8gigs of ram?

I would agree but the form factor is somewhat important to me, as is the noise levels & power consume. I've had linux box just for that

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Does anyone have any experience with Zyxel NSA325? I already love the specs on QNAP but it's always nice to have options

Sorry for reposting the same question but is there any way hardcode or force the ram speed? I mean I have 4 dimm modules and when I use them all it drops to 1333MHz and this is normal as far as I know.

Whats the model you have? The page you linked is for pro models and those are for sure out of question for me. The 'home' versions do seem nice.

~250€ is pretty much as high as I can go at this point, and to consider these are the prices without HDD's

Heya, Im trying to find myself a decent NAS enclosure for my home network. At the moment I am sharing USB HDD with my secondary desktop PC and that doesnt work too well (noisy, power hungry and all that basic stuff)

Can someone recommend some nice piece of equipment or is this ok: DS212j Products - Synology Inc. Network Attached Storage - NEW NAS Experience ?

Sorry for asking a stupid question but what does the T1 mode mean? And is there a way to unlock full speed (well the normal 1600MHz) while using 8GB modules from bios?

I too have extra dota invites to share, pm if you want one.