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Plex, allows video, music, and picture sharing. Had a great web interface along with widely supported apps, nd you can share access with other people. Most of Plex's features are free. Downsides are the interface for photos specifically is alright, but not amazing, and to share the other users need a plex account also.

Just as a heads up, recovery software will only be able to get data if you did a 'quick' format. If you did a 'full' format, you won't be able to get that data back from that drive.

Real world bandwidth will be significantly lower. That 600Mbps would be under ideal conditions. Basically a perfect signal with only 1 device connected wirelessly. When you're router has to talk to a bunch of devices what it will actually do is a round robin style communication. So it'll talk to one device for a fraction of a second, then move to the next and talk to it for a fraction of a second, then the next, and the next, until it looped back around to the first device again, and it just keeps doing that to keep traffic flowing to all devices, but it is only ever able to talk to 1 device at a time. Routers with multiple bands, for example a 2.4 and 5GHz, are able to talk to 1 device at a time per band, so one device can communicate on the 2.4 as the same time as the 5. These both still work in a round robin style, you just have 2 separate circles with different devices in them. There are also some newer AC routers that are supporting a technology called MU-MIMO. You still don't see to many of them available, but MU-MIMO allows a single band to talk to 2 or 3 devices at a time, significantly reducing latency and making better use of the bandwidth available to it. Hope that makes sense and helps you understand.

Separate thing altogether. I'm specifically talking about the sata controller, which is part of the chipset, not the CPU. It is the hardware that actually sends commands to the drives and they typically can't handle more throughput than 2GBps give or take a little depending on the exact model. You might be able to gain a little more performance with bclk overclocking, but I'm not 100% sure as I don't know if the sata controller actually relies on that, it very well may be asynchronous. Without talking to a board OEM or doing some serious testing, I wouldn't be able to confirm.

Just to expand on what others have said. While you can increase speeds with raid 0, you can typically only push so far. Most of the consumer grade SATA controllers I have seen used top out at around 2GBps throughput, the controllers themselves just can't process commands quicker than that. So even if you have 10 sata3 SSDs which should give you a theoretical max of around 5GBps, you typically won't come anywhere near that because the controller just can't handle it. The actual limit varies from controller to controller, but they all seem to be around that 2GBps mark. So 3, maybe 4 in some cases, SSD's in raid 0 will give you pretty much the maximum throughput you will ever get. More drives then that typically won't see throughput increase, although some tests from PCPer, seem to indicate that it can reduce drive latency/seek times.

I'm running 2 old and out of date 6950s in crossfire. Heck, I don't even get driver support anymore and the crimson drivers, as good looking as they are, are also buggy as hell for these cards. An new card would be mightily appreciated.

Also something others haven't said. Is it possible to move your router so that you have better coverage?

Biggest difference is warranty. The 300 series which is their home office line has a 3 year warranty. The 100 series which is their business line has a lifetime warranty. Other than that, they are pretty darn similar other than color.

It isn't, I have one. It's a great router, but not a combo unit. At $200 budget for both, I would recommend picking up a Surfboard 6141 as your modem (assuming cable): http://www.amazon.com/ARRIS-SURFboard-SB6141-DOCSIS-Cable/dp/B00AJHDZSI Then for router an Asus RT-AC66U: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320115 That's probably going to be about your most reliable and feature rich combination at that price point.

As @Domifi said, this is RAPID mode which uses your RAM as a cache. When you write a file to your SSD what actually happens with rapid mode is that it actually writes to RAM first really quickly. Then it flushes that to the disk whenever it can. It can have an increase on perceived speed and responsiveness, but doesn't actually make the data get to the SSD faster. If you don't have a UPS you generally want to turn this off. If your PC gets turned off, be it through power outage or accidental shutdown, and there is still data in the RAM cache, you lose all that data. Also please try to use the forums search functions. This question gets asked literally every day or two.

While this is true, every consumer grade router is going to have the option to turn off DHCP and just go into Acess Point mode. Literally just flipping a toggle switch in the software. If he finds a deal on routers cheap somewhere, it'll work fine. Just needs to turn of DHCP. Heck quite a few consumer routers I've worked with recently automatically turn off DHCP when you plug them into a network through the LAN ports instead of the WAN.

Yeah, sorry buddy, but RAPID mode uses your RAM as a read/write cache for the SSD, so what you are seeing is the speed of your RAM. Forewarning, if you don't have a UPS you should probably turn RAPID mode off. If you have a power outage and anything is in the RAPID mode cache, it will be lost forever.

We need a little more detail: Budget for modem? Budget for router? Connection type (Cable, fiber, etc)? Connection speed (both up and down)? How big of an area needs coverage? Are there any solid/block walls that the router has to deal with or just standard drywall walls? What is your typical usage? IE. general use/gaming, in home streaming (steam, plex, etc.), business How many client devices? IE. total number of computers, phones, and other devices that will be connecting

I would also highly recommend going for AC. While N definitely can do in home streaming, AC is going to give you better bandwidth then N at most distances, so you are likely to see better quality and performance if you have some distance between you and the router while streaming.

Just as a heads up, if you watch Newegg and Amazon for sales the 3TB Red drives go on sale for $99 pretty darn often. While they aren't necessarily as high performance as Blues, they are RAID optimized and when you start getting into large amounts of storage like this, RAID tends to happen more often than not.

I can't say with 100% certainty because I don't have your boards owner's manual in front of me, but if your first set is supposed to go in 2 and 4, a single stick is likely supposed to go into slot 2.

Not bits, Kilobits. What you calculated would come out to 135GB not MB.

I'm not familiar with that specific mobo, but most raid 5s will have a pretty long initialization process to get them ready. This could take hours or days depending on the size and speed of the does along with the raid controller. Is it still possibly initializing maybe? Also just as a heads up on-board raid 5 performance, especially in writes is normally pretty poor just so you are aware.

Ahh that sucks, I didn't realize they didn't ship to EU. It looks like the UK newegg has it as well as the US one. No idea if newegg has a Netherland's site or how shipping between countries works over there, but they may be worth a look. http://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824980012&cm_re=Ergotech_320-_-24-980-012-_-Product

Don't know if it's available in the netherland's but I'm about 90% sure that Ergotech's 320 Dual Arm model should be able to handle that. I'd try and contact them just to confirm though before ordering. http://ergotechgroup.com/320-series-arms.html

Allocation size is the smallest amount of space that data can take up on your hard drive. So for your example of a 256KB allocation size. Your computer basically divides your HDD into a bunch of 256KB blocks, and gives them numbers. These numbers are also essentially what your MBR/GPT will reference when it goes to look for a file. Now say you go to put your very first file on this drive, and it's an 8KB file. The HDD will put that into block 1, which means there is another 248KB of free space left in that block (256-8). However, the hard drive can't use the rest of that 248KB of space because it would have no way to reference it if it did. This means your file that is 8KB digitally is effectively taking up 256KB worth of space on your HDD physically. When you go to put a second file on the HDD, it will go into block 2 which starts on the 257th KB on the disk, not the 9th KB right after the first file. Generally speaking, a higher allocation size will decrease seek times, giving slightly better performance, because the HDD doesn't have as many records to search through but at the same time, it wastes a little more space. In practice though, you honestly are very unlikely to see much of difference at all. It's possible to, especially within benchmarks, but very unlikely in everyday use for the typical home user.

It looks like I'm a little bit late to help but since you are keeping the drive, you are totally fine to just plug it in and format it. If you were going to sell the drive to someone else I would highly recommend using Darik's Boot and Nuke or another similar wiping program to do at least 1 full overwrite pass to the drive. Or more if you are paranoid/have the time.

Do you have some sort of UPS for your computer? If not, you should probably disable it. Rapid mode uses your RAM as a cache to primarily make writes go faster. If you lose power while stuff is still cached in RAM but hasn't been written to disk. That data will be lost forever with absolutely no way to recover it. A UPS would get you around that issue though since you would have enough time for it to finish flushing the cache and do a graceful shutdown. As far as the samsung software. You can close it. It doesn't really do anything other than let you change some settings and view information, so for the most part it's just wasting resources really (although it's barely anything). Things like TRIM are ran at the system level and don't require the software to be actively running to work.

Up until recently the Sandisk Extreme series of flash drives were pretty much the fastest ones out there and I would highly recommend them. Performance is great, build quality is awesome, but they are quite a bit more expensive then other options out there. Also there may be some faster flash drives out there now if you do some research. I haven't shopped for a flash drive in probably 9 months so I'm not sure what's come out since then.

I doubt you will see much of a change at all in wifi coverage, but I've never worked with that specific modem/router combo unit so I couldn't tell you for sure. However it does have both a 5GHz and 2.4GHz band built into it. 5GHz is great for pure speed but has a much smaller coverage area and has a harder time going through things like walls. This is why routers today also still have an older 2.4GHz connection. That 2.4GHz connection is slower than the 5GHz but has a much further range and better penetration. However, on this new unit it supports 802.11n on the 2.4GHz connection which is still an order of magnitude faster than your old unit which was only 802.11g. So while you're overall range is likely to stay about the same your speed will be faster all over and there will be a pocket in the center that's even faster.