NAS / RAID

Hello, all. I am looking for suggestions on which way to go relative to setting up a NAS on a small network. BACKGROUND: We have our Internet router which provides all stations (4-8) with wi-fi and also connects to a 4-port switch via RJ-45. This switch provides connectivity to a particular...

WD's page on NasWare 3.0 states the following: I'm not sure how firmware alone could accomplish this. Do WD Reds have super caps or some other circuitry to ensure command completion after power loss? Do the WD Reds actually protect your data in case of a power loss or is this just a fancy...

Hello all, I am looking to add a NAS to my current setup. I am a hobbyist photographer, but lately have been taking it a little more seriously and actually getting paying clients. I think my current solution.of just dumping all my raw files onto an internal drive, and then backing that drive up...

Hi, so, yeah, thats the question, what do you think is better? Getting an old Fujitsu PC like that one for 70 Euro and using FreeNAS https://www.ebay.de/itm/Fujitsu-Esprimo-E900-Intel-Core-i5-2400-3-1GHz-4GB-RAM-500GB-HDD-Win7-Pro/333308837513?hash=item4d9ac13e89:g:MHUAAOSwQd5cZAoq or the...

So I have 20-something 2.5" SATA 500gb hard drives procured from various reclaimed PCs. Right now they're just collecting dust. I want to put them to use in some kind of home server/ NAS. What's an efficient (cheap) way to hook them up? For any ground-up build I would need to get a case...

Hello, I just got a Netgear Ultra4 NAS with two Seagate 2T drives. I am running windows 10 and using the Netgear r6400 router. When I access the NAS using RAIDar, the control panel shows a healthy status and both drives good. When I look on my pc windows nothing so I go to Network. The NAS...

Good Day! My problem is: I have 16 PC that members of a community are going to use. It should not care which PC that member uses, they should be able to access their files. AKA has an external storage (cloud/NAS). Preferably have it so that you have to log in to access your allocated partition...

Hello, I never bought a NAS before but I am planning on buying this NAS when it comes out. I am planing to use it for streaming but I just saw it is meant for surveillance. My question is: Can this NAS be used for for streaming or can it be only used for surveillance? Money is not a limiting...

We are a team of creatives looking to solve our growing storage issues as I’m sure most businesses discover. The majority of our work is video and now more often than not we filming in 4K. On average a job/project will consume roughly 200GB in its entirety which includes the raw footage...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any idea on converting a Disc Makers Reflex DVD/CD copier to a NAS. I found a hot swappable bay that I could replace the DVD drives with, and all I want is to use the chassis of the disc copier. I wanted to replace the DVD drives with this...

Hey all, I am moving from a desktop computer to a laptop as my main machine, but I'd like to retain the RAID and storage space. I'd also like to reuse my SSD if I can, though that isn't important. I have a 500GB SSD, 2 1TB SATA mirrored drives, 2 2TB SATA mirrored drives, and 1 3TB drive I've...

Alright so I started experiencing random PC shutdowns while gaming, first I thought it was the PSU but it kept happening. I woke up today and saw my motherboard LEDs were off I had to take out at battery and put a new one in and it still shuts off I also replaced the PSU to the Corsair listed...

Built a New Computer, Small Fire, Need Advice [Final Update] Got a new motherboard, installed everything again (new cooler since the last two melted), and every thing works perfectly. Ran memtest overnight and didn't find any issues, CPU only gets to around 55c while gaming (Metro, Monster...

I've been experience crashing on most video games for a while now. I relatively recently upgraded to a 2560x1080 monitor for my main monitor with a 1920x1080 monitor as my second monitor. Ever since then I've been noticing games crashing VERY often. I suspected for a while that it might be my...

I will be grateful for an advice on why my 32 GB Samsung MZMPC032HBCD-000H1 SSD is shown as 6 GB. It was used as Windows 8.1 system SSD disk on HP Pavilion 15-b157sr laptop . When I started an upgrade to Windows 10 I saw it only to be 6 GB. Why is it shown differently at the same time by...

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My mouse seems to go into a constant state of loading (cursor icon is spinning blue circle) whenever my mouse is on the desktop. It disappears when I open any type window/browser, but goes back if I'm on my desktop again. Note that everything still works normally, but the icon itself get stuck...

I'm in the market for a new video card on the $200-250 bracket. I saw this Zotac GeForce GTX 1060, 192 bit 6GB GDDR5X. I don't have any experience with Zotac products. Are they any good? Also there ie the XFX Radeon 580 Black Edit., 8GB 256bit GDDR5 and XFX Radeon RX 590 Fatboy, 8GB.256bit...

So my computer has been acting kinda weird lately with certain things. Like the audio will pop and things will lag a little bit. It happens very rarely though. For instance if I go into fullscreen mode on a video in discord my computer freaks out. This biggest thing that concerns me now is that...

Hey guys, long story short my elgato said i needed to plug the cable into a 3.0 port so i did that, it didnt work so i changed the ports and so on, tried every port and it didnt work so i hit on to youtube and google, searched some stuff up, didnt work. Did more didnt work, then i found...

Hi there! I just installed a brand new AMD FX 8350 yesterday, was mega super careful and all! It's in correctly and I'm using stock heatsink. I did not mess with the BIOS or overclock at all, and have no intention of overclocking at this time. Idle Temps: 45-50 Basic / Light Use Temps: 50-60...

I want to print some stuff from a PDF but when I print it my printer doesn't show up. I checked on the control panel on it says it connected. What do I do???

Hey, I received PC with AORUS AiO cooling of 2 pushing fans AND ADDITIONAL 2 NZXT P pulling fans on the other side of the radiator. I would like to ask you: how to synchronise these 4 fans? I got NZXT Kraken x72 push/pull i7-9700k cooling "synchronised by BIOS" by my retailer - i dont know...

Hi I'm an Engineering student and I'm looking for a laptop for mostly CAD and 3d modeling. 1. What is your budget? Around 1000$ 2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? Minimum of 15'' 3. What screen resolution do you want? Minimum 1920x1080 4. Do you need a portable...

Hi, My PC was built last 2014 and last month it just stopped working. We figured out the problem was my PSU so I bought a new one. Then after a month, it just suddenly stopped working again one day even tho I turned it off properly the night before. We tested my PSU, we even brought it back to...

Hey, I'm not too sure about motherboards so I would love to hear what you guys recommend I should get for a i9-9900K & RTX 2080ti setup? ;)(y) EDIT: Also recommended PSU?

Hi will my MSI B350 Gaming Plus be able to handle one of the upcoming 6 core Ryzen CPUs? Thinking of switching from a 1500x when they come out, but I don't really wanna upgrade the board. (tight af budget)

It's giving me errors and I can't remove it. It prompts for a drive to find a .msi file and when I browse to it it gives a installation failed error (uninstallation). I can't play APEX because I can't remove the bloody redistributable. Thanks.

I will try to make this short. Some time ago I gave a now 2 year old rig to my son. He is now 12 and really getting into gaming. Among his friends bling and LED is what gives credit when talking about rigs. So...the kid saved from his allowance for 6 months to have money for a Corsair Crystal...

I have Dell Inspiron 7559 laptop with 128GB SSD, Intel core i7 processor (6th gen.), 1 TB hard drive and 16GB of RAM. I want to upgrade the SSD and also possibly the HDD on the laptop. What is the max capacity SSD I can install and also I don't want to loose the genuine windows came with stock...

Hi, I had a running system, which I attempted to overclock. Since I'm an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing, I changed the maximum CPU frequency from its default (I think it was 150Mhz) to 350Mhz. The computer booted to a black screen so I was forced to reset the UEFI using the old jumper...

So recently I bought Colorful RTX 2060 Ultra OC from my region(Bangladesh). I asked the shop members if there was any free games with RTX cards. They said they didn't know and said there was no offer like this with Colorful RTX Cards.Now will I get any free games?..Or the "Triple game bundle...

Someone is selling the sticks from this ram individually F4-3200C14Q-32GTZR His price for 1x8gb is 100e and 160e for 2x8gb. It's brand new sealed, with the receipt. I already have a 1x8gb F4-3600C15D running at -14-14-14-34@1.35v And their stats seem identical ...

Whenever I am producing a heavy load, such as installing an update for a game or even error checking, my NVME SSD (240GB Kingston A1000), hits 100% utilisation (which I see is normal) but what is not normal is the fact that the response time, read speed and write speed all sit at 0 ( View...

My motherboard(ASUS M2NA68 AM) is damaged and am looking for a new board.I have a DDR2 RAM and AMD SEMPRON 145 Processor with me.So kindly suggest me a board with maximum graphics where I can use the same ram and processor that am already having with me.

So I have 2 sticks 8gb Corsair d4 ram 3200 speed. Can I add 2 more sticks of ram to my system of the same brand and same speed of 3200 but 2 sticks of 16gb? To have a total of 4 sticks 2 8gb and 2 16gb. Will that work? Will I run into problems? I meant 2 sticks of 4 Gb = 8 *

Last week I spilled The Dew on my PC indirectly. Most landed on the bottom of my case (it’s laying horizontal) and splashed my PSU dust guard and bottom of PC, any risk? And is there anyway to fix? It hasnt been booted since last week as I left it to dry naturally.

It would be nicer to me if the tomshardware home button took us back to the actual tomshardware.com instead of forums.tomshardware.com. Does anyone else agree with me on this usability issue?

Hello everyone! I have a question regarding TV home setup. So i have a Nvidia Shield (used as a TV box) and a PS4 connected via two hdmi cables to my LG 47 in TV. I recently bought a Marantz amplifier for my turntable and a pair of speakers and I want to output the NVIDIA/PS4/TV sound to my...

today i bought a RTX 2060 to upgrade my old system that has a GTX 970, my problem is i didnt know what kinda gpu ports 2060 has before i bought it, now my monitor a bit old and has only a vga output and i am using my GTX 970 with a port converter( DVI to VGA), but now 2060 has 3 display ports...