December 29th

Finally all the parts for the new PC that I'm going to build to replace the home theatre PC have arrived, so I put them together:

A Silverstone ML-04 case...

without the lid...

with a Corsair power supply...

and an MSI Mortar motherboard...

and an i3-6100...

and an LG Blu-Ray drive...

And a Seagate Barracuda 1.5 TB drive...

I took the hard drive out of an old USB 2.0 external drive I wasn't using (as come on, USB 2.0?).  I cloned it from the current HTPC (it took 4 hours to copy 400Gb via USB 2.0, that'll teach me to open the case and use SATA), but nothing seems to work, so I'll look into that tomorrow.