Simon Bruun

Thanks for sharing that. I can imagine that the atmos/ceiling channel stuff is quite rare in videos. The same with 4K video, I would have guessed by now, that it would be a lot more common to watch content at 4k , but you still have to actively search for 4k videos to find them. So i can imagine that movies with ceiling audio channels is even harder to come by. I think my vague question has been answered. Nothing extraordinary has happened that throw money after. I'll put some extra effort configuration into my existing system and hope I'll be satisfied with that. Also i hope that the subwoofer "blurps" can be resolved somehow too. Thanks emosun and circesye for your comments.

Hehe, got it, and thanks :) To that point. I do feel like ease-of-use could be a factor too. so not only taking the sound and movie experience into account. Today the TV controls the reciever via HDMI, and that works pretty well for me.

Hi The latest LTT video of Linus reworking his living room HT setup got the thinking about my setup. I've been running a Marantz SR7005 since 2012. with a same aged KEF Serie R 5.1 speaker system. The TV is an LG OLED65E6V with horrible burn in by now. It is also used as a PC, so Taskbar and Icons are always visible, so the TV could be up for a switch, in the near future too. I don't have many issues with my current setup, but are a few i could mention There are some weird subwoofer "blurps", when watching flow TV, sounds like wrong signals getting passed through to the woofer, it is just an annoying out of place noise. I never really had a good a surround feeling, I can hear them, and of cause when you fiddle with the system and run demo videos and really listen, I hear them. But when I casual consume content I don't really notice them. Overhead sound - I never actually listened to a HT with overhead sound, I feel like it could be nice to have, preferable something that can bounce off the ceiling. SR7005 can not passthrough 4k video. Fortunately my UHD player had the possibility to only send sound out of one HDMI and 4K Video out of another HDMI. But sadly I've gotten lazy and only stream now. When I mention upgrade I mean a new receiver, and perhaps some additional speakers. I guess my vague question is "Should i look into upgrading my system". Things that could effect my decision. Has anything hit the market that will "blow my mind" in the last 11 years - Like overhead speakers, and Dolby Atmos like sound. Has room correction gotten better, I think I have a horrible room for HT, so even better room correction could be nice. Anything that I completely missed in the HT market in the last 11 years that you just can't live without today ? Or put in another way, can I breathe new life/excitement into my current HT, and what steps should i take to make that happen ?

So I've been messing around with Unraid the last few days now, and it started off pretty good. But now ended up with sort of bad feeling about it. Not really sure what I'm going to do now, but thought I would share. As stated, started off pretty good, with not too many hiccups, I got it up and running. and build my array, and set up some shares, and even tried Container and VMs. And do like the power it gives me when it is working. things that bothered me I realized that parity takes forever (7-8hours on a 6TB disc), but I think that is normal, but I lost my parity-check progress as I thought it would continue after a reboot. I have not yet been able to select any options in blue boot menu that shows up when it starts, it just picks option 1 and starts the unraid server. Started a file sync tool on my PC to copy data to the unraid server, and at some point my memory log went to 100% and I think it bugged down after that, and needed to reboot to clear the memory. after I asked for the server to reboot it would not boot back up. and had to leave it for the next day. next day it did boot again, and tried turning off fast-boot in uefi, in hope that it would allow me to use the menu for other than option 1. i'm not sure what it was, but now the machine won't boot again, power goes on, and keyboard lights up, but no signal to monitor. Maybe clearing CMOS or waiting a day and try again will bring it back up. EDIT: Clearing CMOS got me running agian Most of the problems I've googled and there are discussions about problems like mine. That is sort of a good thing, so I know it can be fixed (maybe), but then again. I don't like it is that filled with instability and tinkering to have it running. What are you experiences with unraid, Did it work out of the box - no problems ? Or did you have rough startup phase before stability ? Do you guys think I should crack on, and get this running, or abandon ship ?

Checked up on unraid, and I think you are right, this seems to fit perfectly - Thank you ! checked out Raid Owls video on it, and looks good to me

Thanks, I haven't thought about that, and I don't think I'll need anything to elaborate, so maybe just using proxmox for it, is fine for me. Didn't mean anything by it, just my lack of knowledge on display here xD. Thanks for the input, haven't heard about the PBS (Proxmox backup server I assume) before. OK, i'll consider it, but can always be done as a side project I guess. OK, thanks for that, I can't say that I had any problems with Storage Spaces, so your input might convince me stay put. I'll give veeam a look. Thanks, yeah, that is sort of the feeling I'm getting, and was not sure what to do. Thinking maybe just use Proxmox, and do a share from there without TrueNas holy shit dude, I took that as a given, that you could add more dices. Hmm damn, that might be a showstopper for me, and just stick with storage spaces. Thank you for pointing that out. and thanks for info on the cache discs. man, so glad i asked before going further with this. Thanks for your feedback. I guess I'm swayed more towards staying on my win10 "server", What I think I will miss the most is the Virtualization options of Proxmox, but haven't really got a "use case/home project" for it yet.

Hi So I'm thinking about rebuilding my home server. It is a Intel I7-4790k (4 core, 8 threads), 32GB Ram - Windows 10 box With some Disks working as my NAS. I also use it for occasional projects, and have an IIS , and SQL Server Express running on it. And also Minecraft from time to time. The disk are running in a Windows Storage Space setup. I never really had any problems with it, and current uptime is 280days ^^ So why rebuild ? 1. I don't have the greatest feeling about the Windows Storage Space thing. but can't put words to it. 2. Open op for new possibilities with virtualizations and containers. 3. For fun. I made some Powerpoint illustrations to show what i'm thinking about doing, and I would like to hear you guys thoughts on it. and what I might have missed. As-Is setup. To the left is the "Server" and to the right is my PC there are these disk Server: 3 x 250GB SSD 3 x 6TB HDD PC: 1 x 2TB nvme 1 x 1TB nvme 4 x 1TB SSD Initial thoughts of the new setup Install Proxmox as main hypervisor Install TrueNas on top Proxmox (I'm not sure about this, or maybe just go with TrueNas, and use its virtualization features) I'll use one 250SSD as Proxmox boot drive Use the rest for TrueNas, where the 2 SSDs would be cashes. I'll also need to figure out how to reserve disc space for future virtual machines and Containers. I've decided to get rid of Windows Storage Spaces on the PC to, and just have a drive letter for each my discs. How to setup my backup option 1 Assuming 1 redundant disc on the server I'll have aprox 12TB available I was thinking to create an equal "partition" on the TrueNAS server for each of my discs on the PC. And just make a 1:1 copy to have a backup. And then have the 7TB as free space to play with. How to setup my backup option 2 Sort of the same principle as option 1, but instead all the discs are one big space, and I just create a "folder" matching each of my drives on the PC. I like have plenty of space on my PC, but could agree to move one, maybe to of the 1TB SSDs to the server too, if there would some good reason for it. My PC and my Server are LAN Connected with 1Gbps. could an upgrade to 2.5Gbps or 10Gbps befit me in any way ? PS. I've had this thought, but sort of put it in the back of my head. All this is quite technical, but I don't doubt that I can manage to get it up and running. But what I am afraid of, is when I return to it in 2 years for what ever reason, I don't remember half of it, and will be afraid to touch it. So I did have this idea, of just to keep my "Win10 server", and get rid of Storage space, and just do plain NTFS drives, and have some sync tool taking care of my backups/redundancies. As basic as it can be. Any feedback is appreciated

Thanks dude, that looks sweet. might be exactly what I'm looking for.

Hi Guys I've been pushing this little project of mine in front of me for a few years now, and thought maybe some outside inputs could help me get started. I have this extra PC I use as a hobby server/nas. Right now it is standing in the corner of our living room. But the plan has always been to put it in our basement room. I don't want to drill a hole from inside our apartment out to the shared stairwell. So I need some sort of wireless solution to get network signal from inside the apartment to the stairwell. Once inside the stairwell I'll be able to use cables all the way to our basement room. I would say the signal needs to pass one, maybe two, brick or concrete walls, but otherwise not very far. my phone have great wi-fi signal inside the stairwell. My solution right now is to get a Access Point and use it as a Wi-fi to Ethernet adapter, and then use around 50m cat cable down to the basement. We live on 2nd floor, and need to down to -1 basement level, and then through a sort pathway to the basement rooms. There are holes and cable managers all the way down to the basement room from the stairwell. Looking for comments on the idea, and/or specific recommended devices names if you have them.

Cool thanks for the input. Yeah I did go though my AVR with my old HD TV, but my Marantz can't handle 4K content. so I can't do that anymore. Hmm.. maybe I can set the AVR ARC Input to always be stereo. That is better than no speech surround. But if the TV is bugged, and only send the Front Speaker channels, then i guess setting the AVR to stereo won't help. Are you saying it is only ARC problem ? If I bypass the ARC, like with an optical connection, would that solve the problem ? If I remember right I didn't use Optical because it could not handle the newer higher quality Sound formats. But I don't care so much about that anymore.

Hi All I need a shove in the right direction. The problem For a while we have experiencing lack "center speaker sound" where most of the talking is emitting form. We first noticed it when our Flow TV supplier swapped some movie channels to some other movie channels. These channels have sound from the front speakers, but not the center speaker in the 5.1 setup. But it seems like it is a 5.1 sound stream since the speech is gone from movie. But the center speaker is not dead, as it works fine on other channels. The Setup I have an LG OLED E6 in HDMI ARC connection with my older Marantz SR7005 receiver. I have a HTPC in HDMI Connection to the TV I have a LG UP970 UHD Player with a HDMI Video connection to the TV, and a Audio Connection to the Reciever- This is just collecting dust, just thought i would mention it. My thoughts So my gut reaction is that receiver is not able to decode what ever sound stream the TV is sending. Besides the possible decoding problems, the receiver is working fine. So I was thinking I could get a new in-between box, a pre-processor of sorts, that handles the new signals, and just sends analogue sound my old receiver witch handles the amplification of the sound. Does such a box exist and what are they called ? Are there better options ? Can I dumb down the TV to send a older signal to the receiver ? Any input is helpful - Thanks /Simon

Hi A little while back my PC started to make seemingly random reboots. It is all very non dramatic, no BSOD, weird sounds, or problems booting back up again. I just feels like someone hit the reset button. It has been going on for a while now. The main common factor is that it always happens when I don't use the PC. I don't remember it happing even when something as basic as watching YouTube. It could happen after I close a browser, and nothing left but my desktop - boom restart. So it is sort of not that annoying, and why it had taken me a while to look into it. It totally feels like some sort of energy saving thing that goes bad. Like the PC figures it has nothing to do, so it clocks down and whatever other things it can do to draw less power. I have looked a little bit into this, but haven't found anything obvious here. My Win10 power settings is set to Ultimate Performance. I cannot say this this 100% certainty, but it might have started after I installed a new main drive and did a long due reinstall. The new main drive is a wd black sn850 2tb. I've looked in the event log, and see a Critical Kernel-Power 41 when this reboot happens. Most of the solutions I've found so far has been around power settings, and make sure sleep, fast-boot and harddisk shutdown is turned off. And while I agree, I really feels like it has something to do with this, I also think I covered these things, but please make me double check if you also think this is the problem. My system: Board: ROG Crosshair VIII Hero CPU: AMD 3900x GPU: nvidia 3090 Main disk : wd black sn850 2tb old main, now secondary fast disk: nvme 970 EVO 1TB Storage: 4 x SATA SSD 850 EVO 1TB Thanks

Hi, Had some problems, and thought I would share. I switch my old EVO 970 1TB with the new WD_BLACK SN850 2TB. PC booted, but stopped at ROG Screen saying "press F2 or Delete to enter BIOS" But nothing happened when I pressed these buttons - tried a million times, pressing like mad from the second i powered on. It just stopped at this screen. Switched back to EVO 970, and things went back to normal. Put the WD_Black into the second m.2 slot on the motherboard. Same as before freezes at "Press F2..." Alot of pulling disks out, switching around, pressing clear CMOS and Bios buttons on the mother board happened, but nothing made able to get passed the "Press F2" screen with the WD_Black installed. Solution: Pulled out the WD_Black, and used the EVO 970 to boot into windows. Went to ASUS site and got the latest BIOS Beta think it was Version 3102. Used Asus utilities to flash the BIOS. Now it works, and finished installing windows on the new disk last night.

Hi all Not really sure where to put this question, as it also touches other subjects than storage. I'm running out of space on my main nvme 970 EVO 1TB. I use it for windows, Games, and 3D modeling. I want as much performance on these 3 elements as possible. I have 4 SSD 850 EVO 1TB SATA disk as my slower storage area. They are running as a Windows Storage Space, with no redundancy (I did at first but changed it) I also have an old PC running as a "storage server", with 3 x 6TB spinning disks, and a SATA SSD 850 EVO 250GB marked as cache, these are also running in a Windows Storage Space. with one disk in redundancy. There is a SATA SSD running windows, on this server too. This is why I don't use redundancy on my main PC, because I take backups from my Main PC to this machine. This PC is running on this board: https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/Z97PRO_GAMER/ It got an m.2 slot. My Main PC Specs Board: ROG Crosshair VIII Hero CPU: AMD 3900x GPU: nvidia 3090 Main disk: nvme 970 EVO 1TB Storage: 4 x SATA SSD 850 EVO 1TB So I got this new nvme disk WD_BLACK SN850 2TB, I wish to use as my main drive, again for my games, Windows, and 3d modeling. I think the extra 1TB will give me a nice headroom for a while. As a bonus I hope I will gain a little performance upgrade switching to this disk, alto I realize all these benchmarks are very impractical, and I might not see any difference in practice. But never the less, I would of cause like my PC running on all cylinders if possible. I don't think I'll ever wrap my head around PCIe lanes, it seems everywhere I read about folks worrying about them, there is always an answer like "It will not be a problem". So like the rest, will I run into problems here ? Mainly I'm worried that my GPU will not run at full speed when asked to. My thought is just to throw that new WD_BLACK disk in as my new main disk. That leaves me with my old 1TB EVO 970. and I see these options. 1. Add it as a cache for my 4 EVO 850 on my main PC 2. Add it as extra storage on my main PC, together with the 4 EVO 850. 3. Add it as a cache to my storage server instead of the 850 EVO 250GB Do I have other options i should consider, what would you guys do ? My "storage server" is running fine, but I would like it to be faster when I browse random files, could an nvme cache improve this ?

Hehe, yeah the reson for the wierd plugs, was grounding pins being in the way, so i used an extention cord, also so i could put the meter on the table, instead of under the table. It is only measuring the powerdraw from the PSU, not my monitors or anyhting else :) When i turned off the PC last night, it went down to 10W standby.