Got home from work and although unlikly I thought i’d check my BB speed and I don’t believe it Virgin have actually upgraded it. Shame the upload speed is still naf but hey shouldn’t grumble.
More Speed Please
Put in request to Virgin for my free upgrade on my BB from 2mb to 10mb so hopefully will get that soon. Although I know it’s not going to be all singing and all dancing as i’m sure it will mean I will just hit their rate shaping limits faster ha.
NAS
After lots of twoing and froing on deciding how to to have a decent home NAS setup I decided to ditch the whole run one on a spare atx box idea and instead got an Iomega Home Network Drive. It has 2x250gb IDE drives in it. Now I plyed with it for 2 days and couldn’t get anything out of it apart from setting up the disks. I created shares etc but couldn’t access them, the ftp server wouldn’t start and the media streaming was next to useless, so in 2 days I didn’t manage to get a single file onto it.
So after some searching I found some opensource linux based firmware @ http://www.openprotium.org which took about 5 minutes to install and went without a hitch.
So far i’ve installed nano,apache2,modphp and twonkymedia although the later i’m still testing.
Next I have to find the best way of setting up raid 1 on it but so far i’m impressed. All this functionality from such a small unit can’t be sniffed at.
The Complete Black Necta Entry
After noticing I have many entries re black necta i’ve decided to put it all into one post to make things easier for visitors.
Final Hardware
Antec 300 Case
Corsair HX520W PSU
Abit IP35 PRO Motherboard
4GB OCZ Memory
Intel Core2Duo E6600 CPU
Arctic Cooler 7 Pro Heatsink & Fan
XFX 8800GTS Extreme Overclocked Version GPU
2x 80 Gig SATA II Samsung Spinpoint HDD
2x Sharkoon 120mm Silent Eagle Blue LED Case Fans
Software
XP Professional (I’m still not convinced with vista)
BN Phase 1
Today phase 1 of Black Necta modding begins 🙂
Fans arrived
And they look hoooooge!
Drives
Due to me already building a NAS I have no need for large drives in my new rig so i’ve gone for two 80 gig SATA II Samsung Spinpoints which i’m going to put into RAID 1.
MB & Memory has arrived
Damn having all this stuff around is making me impatient ha!
Case is here!
Woo Hoo my case arrived today which was bloody quick considering I only ordered it on Friday.
And in the flesh it’s absoloutly lovely. 🙂 You can see the spaces at the front for where my Sharkoon fans are going to go.
Project: Black Necta 3
Brought my motherbord yesterday and managed to save £25 which is good. These are all the bits I can afford at the moment so the project will be on-hold until more funds are available.