It will rip disks just fine and the speed is limited by the BD drive, not the CPU. It is still a beast if you are not gaming.

You could even save yourself $1000 and keep using the 3570k. If you separate the server part, for your desktop blueray ripping system, you now don’t need masses of hard disks in the desktop making it tidier, smaller and more flexible.

If you want a project, you could learn how to use FreeNAS and roll your own server. Key thing is to balance capacity and resilience (ie, RAID). Get a bare bones one and you can use your existing drives. For your use case this would probably work better as they are easier to setup and maintain over 3-5 years. Your NAS could actually be an off the shelf Synology or qnap solution etc. If you want both then maybe two systems is the right answer. This means an always on server-like device that can be accessed by all your laptops and desktops, and maybe able to transcode media orĭo you want a powerful PC to ‘create secondary backups’ of ‘treasured home memories’ for later storage and streaming either on the same device or somewhere else. I’d suggest answering these questions first:ĭo you want a NAS. As others have said, performance will be basically the same for NAS duties, if not overkill. Politely i’d suggest this is not the best place to start designing your solution. Thanks and I look forward to yours recommendations. I do not mind spending around $1500 for this build. I do not game if that matters with your suggestions. Is it very time consuming to rip the BD’s and DVD’s? Should I built 2 boxes? One to house the stored data and one to do general computer stuff. What do I do for the CPU / motherboard? Seems like AMD Ryzen is the better bang for the buck currently. A Seasonic X Series 460 fanless and an Antec Neo HE430 which I pulled from my first build. I also have 2 power supplies in my possession. To date, I purchased 2-8TB Western Digital Element external HDD. This one is going on 7 years strong and counting. There is also a 3TB Western Digital Red for storage. I triple boot MX-19, Archlabs and Windows 10 on separate SSD’s. Second and current PC is an Intel i5-3570K / Asus P8Z77V-Deluxe / 16 GB DDR3. The first one was an AMD Opteron 170 / DFI Landparty Expert / 2 GB DDR1. Currently, I am using separate external HDD for backing up the laptops.įirst off, a bit of background. We have a Dell XPS13 and 2 very old MacBook Core 2 Duo. The second purchase for this machine is to store photo’s from 2 iphones and back up laptop PC’s.

I need your suggestions and recommendations to build a machine to rip and store my BD’s, DVD’s and audio CD’s.

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