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DVD-like optical disc could store 1.6 petabits (or 200 terabytes) on 100 layers

For those who have made suggestions with costs going into the thousands of dollars, this is a home network with significant budget limits. Saving up for the Synology DS1522+ took 6 months

Yes, that is the plan. The question was about using RAID 0 on the backup. Based on how the old NAS will be used, it sounds practical to me.

A thought came to mind using my old NAS as a backup of my main. It will be powered up every month or two for the backup process. The new NAS will use SHR and eventually SHR2. Since the old NAS will be on for no more than a day. Would RAID 0 be practical, or a bad choice? It would lower the...

What I have is an old Synology NAS (DS415) with 4 6TB HDD in RAID 10. I use it for backups of home systems and my Plex library. I am getting a new one, DS-1522+, in a few weeks. So I could use the old one as the backup. Would powering it on once a month to perform a backup be a good plan? Or...

Since NVMe, we have gone completely SSD for our PCs and laptops. The only place we use HDDs is in our NAS.

It is well documented that RAID is not a form of backup. But with large arrays, what is a valid backup? If you have a 50TB array, what is there to back up to except...a RAID array? Do cloud backup options use some other form of redundant data storage?

I began playing shortly after the Gates of AQ opened. I'd estimate that was around 02/2006. I don't play in a steady pattern. I spend long hours playing when patches come out to continue the story on multiple characters. Then I usually have content fatigue and play other stuff. Last night, I...

World of Warcraft: 10,564 Hrs.

More odd behavior. I started a copy of a folder. It was a few MB/s. I did it again, same results. Tried again about 30 min. later, 74.1MB/s. Never unplugged it or restarted the NAS. Spontaneous result? This is a NAS from work 5 years ago. They upgraded to a QNAP with 8 bays. And as for...

Enclosure: SABRENT USB 3.1 Aluminum Enclosure for M.2 NVMe SSD in Silver (EC-NVME) SSD: SAMSUNG 980 PRO SSD 2TB PCIe NVMe Gen 4 Gaming M.2 Internal Solid State Drive Memory Card NAS: DS415+ (CPU: INTEL Atom C2538, Speed: 2.4GHz, Cores: 4, Memory: 2GB) OS: OS included with NAS HDD on...

I am upgrading my NAS. I am using the USB 3.0 port on the front of the NAS. I copied all the data off onto some spare HDDs and a 4TB SSD. Copying speeds off the NAS to the HDD and SSD were good. Copying speed of the data back onto the NAS was good for the HDD. However, copying back onto the...

That system was only temporary. On the Frankenstein system, I installed barebone CentOS with ssh, webmin, and BTRFS. This was completely software RAID. All temporary just to recover the data. Once the volume was accessible, I copied all the data off and built a new system with 4x 4TB HDD in...

System: MoBo with PCI-X slot 16 1TB HDD in RAID 10 with ext4 partition 1 PCI-X 16-port RAID controller Scenario: MoBo fails. Question: Would the data be recoverable if I could not get another MoBo with a PCI-X? Instead, I use the SATA ports on a new MoBo, a PCI and a PCIe SATA controller card...

What 2 or 3 games would you combine to make the ultimate game? For me: Freelancer, Halo, Planet Crafter

Have you ever had time to play a game and you end up spending most of the time deciding what game to play? Once decided, you find that your free time is almost done.

No, they are TV episodes

I am transferring 82.6 GB worth of video to my NAS. The laptop uses WiFi 6e, the router is WiFi 6e. From there, a 2.5 Gbps connection to my NAS. Yet I am getting between 51KB/s and 6.8MB/s. The only other traffic going on at the moment is Youtube streaming to my Roku. Internet speed tests...

That is one I forgot about. It too was a major player in my becoming a PC gamer. I remember buying the whole franchise on GoG.com

What PC game defined you as a PC gamer? I do not mean what was your first PC game, but with what PC game did you consider yourself a PC Gamer? For me, King's Quest V

I have the dialog up high too. Especially for games that are heavily story-driven Same, but I have each expansion's soundtrack on my Plex server.

I have always played with the music disabled. Despite some games having excellent soundtracks such as Red Dead Redemption 2 and World of Warcraft. It interferes with my ability to listen to the area around me. What about you?

What is your Windows version timeline for your primary PC? No dates, just the versions. For me, Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 7 Windows 10

Either way. She's been doing this work for years at other employers. She knew what she needed. So it is just a matter of time until we get her work laptop in.

Found more info about our new employee. She does work on databases and number crunching. It uses an M1 Max chip and has 64GB RAM. Did some more reading on the chip. Sounds like an excellent fit.

Years ago, I remember hearing that Macs excelled as a CGI/CGA workstation. Do they still have an edge over PC?

Macs have always been off my list. Not for price, adapting to a new OS, or gaming options. It's just that ever since I assembled my first PC (Pentium 100). The assembly and customization is a thrill for me. Can't do that with any Apple product

We recently hired a person who uses a Macbook Pro. And has been using Apple products since the late '90s. So we purchased a Macbook Pro for him for business use back in February. $$$$. Supposed to arrive this month, but we got a notice that it's on backorder till June. Why are Macbooks so...

I did. All upfront too. A trade-in of my wife's Galaxy S10 allowed us to get it $400 off. And it was not just for the specs. The S22 and S22+ had a smaller screen size than my previous LG V30

HTC Desire HD, Google Nexus 6 (Motorola), LG V30, Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra

Froyo on HTC Desire HD. Later upgraded to Gingerbread with CyanogenMod

What is the first version of Android you used?

I prefer not to be labeled for necroing a thread

While playing earlier today, I was keeping a closer eye on everything and it really lit up. The CPU cooling block, radiator, case /w fans, memory, and keyboard all support iCue

It may have. Not sure. The keyboard is below my field of view. The PC is adjacent to the monitor

Just made an interesting discovery with Far Cry 5. It works with Corsair iCue. I noticed that whenever I finished a quest, the pattern on my memory, fans, and CPU cooler would flash in a red, white, and blue pattern. Then it would go back to normal

I used to play Starflight all the time. I see it as the precursor to Star Control 2. Which, IMO, is the greatest PC game of all time

Remember how some games used those manuals as security? Page, paragraph, line, word. Doing that every time I loaded the game was annoying. The last game I remember playing that used that method was Railroad Tycoon. Another was Elite Plus