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2 HN users recommended this between 2013 and 2015, in 2 comments.
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2 HN users recommended this between 2013 and 2015, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
This looks cool, but I increasingly seldom I find myself watching physical media. I'd be more inclined to fore-go an optical drive and buy a case like this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003DXI288/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_ttl...
and just rip my physical media ahead of time. Although here in the U.S. I think it may be technically illegal to back up my DVD and Bluray collection onto a hard drive (thanks to the DMCA).
Cheap fanless motherboard with 2 NIC's: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006ICQ3FK/ref=oh_aui_deta... ... pay attention to the power supply brick, you might need a little adapter dongle for the mobo.
and a cheap case: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DXI288/ref=oh_aui_deta...
No hard drive, just a usb stick to boot the OS off and save his settings. PFsense in my case, a BSD variant.