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#1 Post by Directive » Wed May 14, 2008 8:01 am

I finally was able to get a network drive that didn't cost an arm and a leg. I got this...
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10843
the 320gig one and it cost me $147 including tax and shipping. seems to work great so far. Wired right up to my router and no problems setting up. :)
This is only my opinion, I could be wrong.
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#2 Post by palmboy5 » Wed May 14, 2008 7:33 pm

Its even gigabit ethernet! Nice! That just got rid of the #1 problem I have with most of those NAS drives (only 10/100). Congrats.

I just put my storage drives in another computer thats left on 24/7 (but ALL PCs are left on 24/7 so thats not a big difference) which is undoubtably not the best way to go about it. Oh welll...
For computers, buying cheaply and often will only leave you constantly in a world of shit.
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#3 Post by 2005 » Sat May 17, 2008 11:32 pm

palmboy5 wrote:Its even gigabit ethernet! Nice! That just got rid of the #1 problem I have with most of those NAS drives (only 10/100). Congrats.

I just put my storage drives in another computer thats left on 24/7 (but ALL PCs are left on 24/7 so thats not a big difference) which is undoubtably not the best way to go about it. Oh welll...
This is the way I do it.

If your systems are networked, then you can share entire drives. You can even share non NAS external drives across a network, they just need to be physically plugged into one machine thats on.

Any more I'm really advocating making images of your hard drive and storing them on another thats not in use at all, hidden away in a climate controlled area with an anti static bag around it. I just went through a hassle bringing these feelings on but thats another post.
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#4 Post by Directive » Thu May 22, 2008 7:19 pm

Just a side note that didn't deserve a new post, and for those who actually give 2 shits, I had to get a new PS, XCLIO GreatPower 500W RT. The fan in the old one stopped working, and it was a cheapo anyway.
This is only my opinion, I could be wrong.
Motherboard - ASUS S500TD Chipset Intel® B660
Procesor - 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400 2.50 GHz(18M Cache, up to 4.4 GHz, 6 cores)
Ram - PNY 2x8GB (16GB total) DDR4 -1600 MHz
Video card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti - Base Clock 1290MHz, Boost Clock 1392MHz, Memory Clock 7008 MHz, 4GB GDDR5 128-bit
Display - VIZIO 32" E32-C1 YV @ 1080P 60Hz
Sound - Realtek High Definition Audio w/ Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Power Supply - 300W power supply (80+ Bronze, peak 350W)
HDD 1 - 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe™ PCIe® 4.0 SSD
HDD 2 - Western Digital WDC_WD10 1TB
Printer - Epson ET-3850
OS - Windows 11 Home x64
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#5 Post by palmboy5 » Fri May 23, 2008 12:40 am

XCLIO GreatPower 500W RT sounds like a cheapo too! ;)
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#6 Post by Directive » Fri May 23, 2008 6:46 am

My old one was like $35. This one is $85.
http://www.xclio.com/product/PSU_GreatP ... 4-500w.htm
Its not top of the line but its defiantly better and has a 2 year warranty.
This is only my opinion, I could be wrong.
Motherboard - ASUS S500TD Chipset Intel® B660
Procesor - 12th Gen Intel Core i5-12400 2.50 GHz(18M Cache, up to 4.4 GHz, 6 cores)
Ram - PNY 2x8GB (16GB total) DDR4 -1600 MHz
Video card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti - Base Clock 1290MHz, Boost Clock 1392MHz, Memory Clock 7008 MHz, 4GB GDDR5 128-bit
Display - VIZIO 32" E32-C1 YV @ 1080P 60Hz
Sound - Realtek High Definition Audio w/ Logitech X-540 5.1 speakers
Power Supply - 300W power supply (80+ Bronze, peak 350W)
HDD 1 - 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe™ PCIe® 4.0 SSD
HDD 2 - Western Digital WDC_WD10 1TB
Printer - Epson ET-3850
OS - Windows 11 Home x64
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