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Thanks for the advice

Thanks for the reply. What other paths might those be? Cloud seems cheap per month but start multiplying per month and it would be prohibitive for me. The server would only be used by one person in the office who will be managing the database. It would not be utilised by everyone. Also, I have...

Hi all. Bit of a newbie. I'm looking to buy an oldish server on ebay to make a file server for my office. It will store a huge number of image files and a mysql database. It will need redundancy so was thinking raid1. Excluding drives budget is only about $400. My research suggests that the sas...

And would you think a usb card like this below would result in in adding another controller? https://www.ebuyer.com/767589-startech-com-5-port-usb-3-1-10gbps-combo-card-1x-usb-c-2x-usb-a-pexusb312eic

Hi Allan, Where would I find the Root hub info specifically? This B450 MB lists two ports on the front (2 (Gen1, Type A), and 2 on the back (2(Gen2, Type A), 2(Gen1, Type A) ). Can I assume that is 4 root hubs? Or only a minimum of 2...

Thanks Ralston, The editing software is on a different system (Ryzen 7 2700x, 64GB Ram, etc etc). Regarding the USB hub, can't you just use three USB ports on the motherboard? What are the benefits of an independently powered USB hub? There seems to be amazingly little on the forums...

Hi, I have a project that needs to record three Logitech Brio webcams at the same time. Ideally, the system would be able to the webcams in 4k but would be satisfied with 1080p feeds. The system only has to run some audio software, webcam software and record the feeds. It has no other purpose. I...

We are setting up a file server for a technical project. Large numbers of jpegs will be added to the server throughout the day (about 400GB a day). We have 12 virtual machines (on 3 VM hosts HP DL580 G5s) reading the jpegs , running edits, and saving the edited files. At the moment this is all...