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Citezein,

Please keep us posted as to what direction you end up going with, as well as what type of success you are having.

I am about two months behind where you are in planning my own build. The Intel recall through a wrench in my plans, but, on the bright side, it is giving me a chance to plan my course a bit better.

Also, I am looking at relying on virtualization too. My plan was to use Server 2008 R2 as a base OS, with WHS 2011 as a VM (possibly booting directly to it on bare metal). Doing so, in theory, would allow me to run another machine alongside WHS, maybe for some light development work (Add-ins or web applications).

Let us know about the motherboard.

pcdoc,

Thanks for the tip.  That was exactly what I wanted to know.

BTW, I just checked out your site, and saw your network and various machine write-ups.

All I can say is "Wow!". You are my new hero.

Yeah, I realize that Blu-Ray can take up quite a bit of space.  But fortunately, I don't have very many at the moment. Er, maybe unfortunately. :)

Since the satellite machine would need to be strong enough to decode Blu-Ray, can I do my ripping there, then move the encoded Blu-Ray to the server?  This would (seemingly) eliminate the need for the a beefy server, as it wouldn't need to be a strong encoder.  It would need to serve up multiple files quick enough, as I would hate for a person watching something in one room to impact another person elsewhere.  Though, that may be bottlenecked more by my network than the server itself.

Perhaps an Intel Atom Ion w/ gigabyte network card & 4 SATA's for the server, with the newly announced Intel Atom Ion 2, or something similar, for the satellites?