Sunfire' TGM-100 goes after the well-heeled media server crowd
By Steven Kim 
posted Sep 2nd 2008 10:08PM
posted Sep 2nd 2008 10:08PM
Upmarket custom-installs are where the comfy margins are, so it's no surprise to see high-end specialists like Sunfire heading in that direction as well. The company is marking its entry into the media server market at CEDIA with the $10,000 TGM-100; and if you think that's pricey, wait until you add some storage -- you know, to make it useful -- your options are a 1TB RAID 0 (TGM-HD1, $700), 3TB RAID 6 (TGM-HD3, $12,000) or 6TB RAID 6 (TGM-HD6, $14,000). At these prices, we'd demand some Blu-ray support, but the release only mentions upscaling to "near-HD 1080P" (sounds familiar) for your DVDs and Gracenote metadata for your music. Like we said, this part of the market is about the margins.
Wow.... I did basically the same thing for like um... $900. A referbished Mac mini, 1TB of external storage, and slingbox.... done.
I have to say ditto on using the refurb mac mini, with a home-built or bought NAS, running Xbox media center... They are ripping folks off...
I've got the 750gb hd and system, but Media Center OS doesn't do what I would like to see like this one. Even bought a refirb Blueray PC drive and 8800gt card for the pc I dont want to spend another 500+ for this. Plus I can do divx and ISO.