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Introduction

Here is the 4th and final post on this subject. Previous posts can be found here, here, and there.

I’ll cover the installation of:

• A 4 ports SATA card ;
• A Media Center Remote USB receiver + remote ;
• Samba for home network CIFS filesharing ;
• ZFS for the main storage.

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Introduction

This is the third article about my journey building a HTPC server. If you didn’t follow the whole serie, they are available here: basic & hardware considerations.

I finally received all the hardware required to build my server. I only bought the base: a motherboard which includes CPU plus graphic card (AT5IONT-I), memory (1x1GB + 1x2GB), a case (Lian-Li PC-V354R), and a Blu-Ray reader. I re-used a Antec EarthWatt 500W power supply unit and a old 500G hard drive I had in some server laying at my place.

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