February 2011
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Tuning a Solid State Drive (SSD) on XBMC Live 10.0 HTPC
4 comments on Tuning a Solid State Drive (SSD) on XBMC Live 10.0 HTPCI have a Kingston SSDNow S100 SS100S2/16G 2.5″ 16GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) in my home theater PC. Although this was my first actual taste of a SSD, I understood that TRIM must be enabled on the drive to keep it performing smoothly for the long haul. Otherwise it would gradually decline…
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XBMC Live 10.0 on a Zotac ZBOX HD-ND02 linked to OpenFiler VM media library
Introduction During the previous post I described my CD-to-FLAC project. The purpose of that project is two-fold: 1) create a digital, loss-less backup of all our existing CD collection, and 2) be able to access this mountain of media and play it on our main stereo system. I was already looking to possibly replace my…
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Ripping CDS to FLAC using Vortexbox in a VM connected to OpenFiler NAS
My project the last several weeks has been to rip my CD collection to FLAC. This is so I have electronic backups of all my music, as well as to allow it to be easily played on the sound systems in the house. My previous post described how I set about ripping. This post will…
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