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I currently work 30-50 hours a week at a full time job on top of school and it more than pays the bills. I'll have plenty to spend at college considering my only costs will be cost of living.
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I know how loud it is, I run an old Cisco ASA 5520 in my room currently.
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Price isn't really an issue for me right now. If I can keep the cost of moving my pc into a rackmount case and purchasing a cabinet under say $600, I'd be fine with it.
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Was also considering - http://www.tripplite.com/server-rack-enclosure-cabinet-extra-depth-12u~SR12UB/
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Well, I like to keep a lot of my media local and I'm planning on running my own internal network at school and just using an ethernet in the wall with a DNSMASQ for internet. I don't /need/ 18U, but I want something that'll accommodate maybe a 2-4u media server a 1-2u router and a 1-2u switch. Well, I was looking at something like this - http://www.tripplite.com/server-rack-enclosure-cabinet-extra-depth-18u~SR18UB/ They don't take up that much space, and it'll be worth it if it eliminates the footprint of my Air 540.
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Hey all! So coming this fall, I'll (hopefully) be headed off to university, hopefully somewhere in California, and I'd like to bring a version of my current gaming rig with me to my dorm, wherever I end up. I'm planning on picking up an Acer Predator X34 closer to June so the price can fall a tiny bit before I pick it up, but I was wondering more about how I plan on renovating my current rig. I'm currently in a Corsair Air 540 with these parts: Album: http://imgur.com/a/xG2Wf Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X Gaming7 RAM: 16GB of 2400MHZ DDR4 RAM Storage: 2x Western Digital Caviar Green 3TB (for media), 1x 1TB Samsung 850 Evo (SATA), 1x 250GB Samsung 850 Evo (SATA), 1x 500GB Samsung 850 Evo (M.2). GPUs: 2x Nvidia GTX 980Ti (Reference Style Cards) PSU: Corsair HX 850i CPU: Intel Core i7 6700k Skylake Cooler: Corsair H100i AIO Liquid Cooler Fans: 2x Noctua 120mm LTT editions (1 extra still in package), 3x Noctua 140mm LTT editions Case: Corsair Air 540 My plan is to move into a 4U Rackmount case, as I plan on having an 18U cabinet or something like that in my dorm room. I've been browsing around a few sites (I'm in London, so restricted to UK shipping options) and found a few potential cases, but I want to make sure there's ample airflow without having to crank up some tiny high RPM fans that are going to make the room super noisy. I've got the fans I'd like to use with the case, though I realize with a 4U case is at most like 170mm tall, so squeezing in 140mm fans might be tough, but here are a few cases I've found. Case #1 Case #1 So What I'm wondering is if anyone else here has done a rackmount build before with the goal of it being somewhat quiet and not thermally dying. I'm going to have a few other rackmount servers in the 18u rack probably, so it may be a challenge, but if I put it at the bottom of the rack, the other servers and switches shouldn't cause it too much trouble. If the noise is an inevitable issue, I'll probably get a rack cabinet with sound proofing and try some unique configuration to keep the PC cool, but it's going to be an interesting project. Does anyone have any advice or any cases they'd recommend to use for a build like this? Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks! - Eric
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Here's my lowly home network. Just set up my SuperHub2 in Modem Mode for the first time, using it with a DNSMask to my LAN so I can use Deep Packet Inspection. Fu**ing love Ubiquity Networks products. Wireless clients not shown because it'd be annoying to add them all.
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How fast is the LTT member's internet connection?
Eric The Tech Guru replied to zephiK's topic in Networking
but.... You used your computer to run the speedtest, right?..... -
Post Linus Memes Here! << -Original thread has returned
Eric The Tech Guru replied to COCOBYTES's topic in Off Topic
Guys, I just found an old but gold image. Feel free to make some memes with it pls. -
Yup, remember, even Raid 1 doesn't mean you're "backing up" your data. In raid 1, if you get a virus and you don't have logical backups on your freeNAS, that virus will be on both clones of the data. The whole purpose of having 'backup disks' in a raid is for hardware failure. If all you need is speed, and you're okay with a little downtime to restore data when a drive fails, raid 0 and a home NAS is your golden ticket.
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10 US cents more for 64GB more space in a USB thumb drive
Eric The Tech Guru replied to snkmoorthy's topic in Hot Deals
That's probably because it's been partitioned and you keep formatting the 200mb partition. Formatting a partition doesn't make it bigger, you have to clean the partition table and initialize a new partition that takes up all available space. -
Thanks, It took a bit of convincing that it was worth it. For a bit of more detail: One of the 4TB drives is being used as torrent space, so active torrents go there. I copy the completed torrent files over to one of the other 4TB drives which is mirrored to another 4TB drive, that's where my organized plex media files are stored. The last 4TB is just for local backups. I keep a few days/weeks of backups locally, and they push to cloud backup from the server so you can backup locally, don't have to leave ur laptop/desktop running for like 12 hours, then the server does all the uploading after it gets a local copy.
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A bit too pricey for me... Huge fan, bummed I can't go.
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ZNAPS -The $9 Magnetic Adapter for your mobile devices
Eric The Tech Guru replied to Bakgrund's topic in Tech News
Eh, I caved and bought a bunch. Got 3 of the microUSB male ends and 5 of the female ends that connect to my cables. -
I'm sure there's something wrong here, their website has inconsistencies all over it. If you tab over to the 'business internet' page, you get a bunch of confusing wording and such there too.
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Windows 10's Internet Edge VS Google Chrome
Eric The Tech Guru replied to Fictionvl's topic in Operating Systems
I think the major draw to chrome for me is the amazing set of tools for web developers and designers. Once MS brings that to edge, I'd happily jump ship if they show a performance increase.- 30 replies
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How fast is the LTT member's internet connection?
Eric The Tech Guru replied to zephiK's topic in Networking
5 MB/s is still within reason fora 47 Mbit connection. You don't expect to get the exact speed you see in a speedtest when downloading stuff.