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  1. Thanks for the input. Will be setting it up in this manner today, luckily I didn't wipe my windows off my ssd =) . Will probably just mirror same drive type to drive type, setup a few shares and ensure full spreading of important data across a couple devices.
  2. I have a dlink 2 bay Nas at the moment but it is so slow and buggy that I was better off taking it offline than the subpar result I was getting, constant dropping out, locking up using the webui, just pure disappointment. Unraid can use your wireless card if you build the module compatible with the Linux version associated, so I've read, which should be alright as I get good support with my other tplink cards on linux. So with further playing it can work. It's just hard when you don't have much control over the house as it's not mine, the joys of saving for a house deposit. The adding of drives via a drive pool is a real turn off. I want to just grab a new drive, throw it in, and keep going on my merry way which is a big tick for unraid. I think I will just have to stick with what know for now and revisit in 6 months or so. By that time I should also have sufficient drives (hopefully 6 to 8) to have a really good crack at a standalone Nas box, connected via Ethernet which is definitely what I want
  3. I appreciate your input 100% can u further shed light on whether raid via things such as Windows 10 assist me at this time. Can I be fairly safe in a raid 5 or 6 of my 4 storage drives at this time?
  4. After looking at a lot of the networks in the 'show off your layout' thread, i have a couple question regarding switches/network. I have been looking at switches and probably will grab a 12-24 port switch eventually, with the aim of it being a central unit and running cat6/whatever to the other parts of the house. How many connections can you make from your modem/router to the initial switch, is a single line from your modem sufficient to a gigabit switch? Can you improve throughput/stability by using more of the lan ports from your modem to the switch? Does adding a switch on a switch (as i see has been done within the thread) degrade throughput back to the rest of the network? Is it preferable to have your telephone line terminate to as central/most-open-place in the house so you can attach a modem/router combo unit directly to that and then have your switch run to the rest of the house? Or just best to leave it in its current location and not add any undue length to that line (to maybe get it to the most open location)
  5. Good Video, quite informative. Even ZFS really is no good for me without ECC memory if it encounters an error. Quite familiar with linux, so that's not much of my concern. It's more of getting it all to do what I want at this time. I am thinking i will probably look at a linux based one in the future once i get out of here and back into my own place where i have the ability to hardwire things with ethernet and more space to have what i want where i want it. I was merely going to either run full linux based (and no app), gaming NAS (for both worlds), or straight up windows How do you run your system with windows 10? how many drives, what kind of system (i did see your PC part picker but that doesn't explain to much more about it). It is looking more and more, right now, that i will continue with this. Do you use backup software? Do you control shares via workgroups or windows share?
  6. We pay for the service, satellite TV, only way to get streaming of sports, live TV, etc into this room, so yeah I do need it. Its internet based not local. i would be covered otherwise. i've been researching software/bios/hardware raid and while i can and do understand the merits to hardware raid, its still no better because you still need to ensure a further external backup anyway, and i cant see why paying another 200+ for a somewhat decent raid controller is going to do in the event that I have a power surge or fire or something else frying my board or components. In any case, I would still be relying on another, external, backup to ensure my data is 'safe.' It may be worth my while just going down the Gaming NAS route, to ensure i have quality hardware now and the OS is in a virtual machine so if it crashes it wont hopefully take my NAS down (if setup on different drives). Running 2 x Raid 0 arrays are probably quite sketchy as I appreciate, I could just run 2 x Raid1 OR format and run them as usual drives and use backup software to back One desktop drive to a NAS drive and the other desktop drive to the other NAS drive and forgo raid altogether. It's really beginning to sound like unless you have a box of specific hardware that can sit next to your router/switch whatever, none of these solutions are any good yet (for what I want anyway). While they can and will work, i can see why people just go screw it and buy a dedicated NAS solution.
  7. hdmi to TV and its foxtel go here in Aus. i may have to end up going back to just running windows 10, running a software raid 2x2 drives and run some software to backup files as well as run windows shares/smb shares in the meantime
  8. can you specifically run windows app in a container? the program required does not have a linux variant, only windows or mac
  9. Hey Guys, [This might be a long-ish post, i just want to give as much info as possible] I am stuck in a bit of a dilemma at this present time. I am trying to work out what kind of NAS OS, is going to be the best fit for me. I have been googling and reading forums for each for the past week or so. I just can't decide on what is going to be the best solution for me and now after reviewing Linus's Gaming NAS video I'm even more stuck. I'll firstly start out by defining my use case right now. At the moment, we are not living in our own house, so unfortunately nas will need to be Wireless, there is literally no room in the kitchen (where the most stable telephone/ADSL port is, to put a pc AND the location of such and not owning the house prevents from running metres of ethernet cable around to secure the best connections. What i do have tho is a TP-Link 1750 Dual Band router with dual band card for the PC, so while not great, that's the best i got). Next, is for our room, where the NAS will be located, I need a PC connected to the TV, due to streaming services not running natively/locally on the TV (I got my 55inch TV just before the whole smart TV really took off, but im not buying a new TV right now). This means I would 'like' to have the NAS also be able to atleast run a streaming service program and plug into the TV as well. At the moment I have a tablet essentially hardwired (as i had it just laying around) doing these duties but I think I am getting interference over the 2.4Ghz band (its not dual band) from the sheer amount of devices we have in the house total. The parts i am re-purposing for the NAS were on TV duties but to have these bits just to stream a couple of windows programs to the TV i thought was a complete waste. Then if i go the whole hog and run gaming NAS style, i wont necessarily get to play games much because it is going to then be used as primary use for TV duties. So to sum up; - Wireless is a must - No ethernet for foreseeable future - Would very much 'like' to have NAS & windows program support at same time. Now Move on to basic NAS use case. - NAS will be used as a server of files to multiple devices on the local network. I can count atleast 5 i would use myself. - NAS will not be required to transcode media. I used Kodi on all devices so realistically i just need the file served to me. - NAS will be used as a central backup of important files also, not just media file service. - NAS OS must support atleast single parity (while not foolproof, better than nothing). I will be implementing a strategy for external backup of important files, not off-site, but external none-the-less). - NAS will need to be able to let me increase storage without breaking absolutely everything and starting it all from scratch (tough ask by the looks of it, but i hope someone has more info for me). Now lets move on to the hardware I have right now. Case - Antex P100 (very suprised by it) Motherboard - Gigabyte Z97-D3H M-ATX CPU - Intel Pentium G3258 Ram - 8GB Patriot Dual Chanel 4GB sticks (non-ECC) Storage - 2 x Seagate 3Tb Desktop grade 7200rpm drives - 2 x 3Tb Hitachi Desktop NAS 7200rpm drives (will be getting more in the future to both replace other drives and increase NAS storage size). Network - TP-Link Dual band something (CBF getting model right now). Gaming NAS styled would encompass the Gaming PC i have listed in my sig, SSD's, Storage, Z97 Gaming 5, 4790K, etc, etc, with the addition, essentially, of the storage above. I dont really want to purchase another (more powerful) haswell CPU or to purchase to much more hardware other than drives. Haswell is the older generation now and I dont want to buy low end Skylake, It will end up being a completed refresh of my Gaming PC only and that will mean a fair bit of cash I dont really want to spend. I have the hardware outlined above already on top of, gaming PC, build PC and laptop. I initially was looking at FreeNAS, mainly due to the dual parity, once i started reading the forums and having a look at the UI and features, I think this is far to complex and unnecessary for my needs. It also would seem to prevent me from dual purposing with TV related duties. I then looked at UnRAID - Looks good, forum seems helpful, potential to run NAS alone but also run with dual purpose with virtualised windows for TV duties. My issue at present with this setup is my hardware i have (CPU) will probably note be enough to run dual NAS, TV duties as its only dual core. Sure its enough for NAS duties but not much else, certainly nothing too intensive anyway (plus i am almost certain it does not support virtualisation). Today, I have been looking at Windows Server - Now i am only going by what I have read so far, but this can do everything I need it to do? It can run windows programs (TV duties - check) & run software RAID with even dual parity. Any help would be appreciated before i jump the gun and give them a go. I don't really want to spend hours and hours setting something up only for it not to work and then need to go through the whole formatting/set-up once again. Any further questions I am happy to advise. Thanks
  10. Build Update and Benchmarks Well finally I have all the components and have built the machine. I had to do a bit of harvesting to get all the good components into the system that I wanted. Initially, I went and pulled out the corsair CS550m powersupply from my media PC. Initial rationale was that I had spent a fair wack of my coin in the last week or so, and wanted atleast a ‘half-decent’ power supply in there. So I set to work pulling the power supply from the media PC and replaced it back with the thermaltake powersupply that came with the case. That took a dam long time to do. I also set about taking the DeepCool 240mm Maelstorm AIO from this PC as well. I initially wanted to use my left over Corsair H100i that has been just collecting dust, ever since I picked up a Thermaltake Ultimate 3.0 360mm for my rig and was initially trying to attach it to my 970 with the Corsair AIO mounting bracket (complete piece of crap BTW). However, as much as I tried to look I could not find the mounting hardware for the 2011-v3 socket. I did have the hardware for the Maelstorm for the x99 system so I took that out as well. I then finally starting building the PC I had ended up having a few beers during that afternoon building and as you can see i forgot to take a couple of progress shots.... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: I then ended up buying an RMi850W power supply to put into my now gaming PC. That meant I needed to get the EVGA 750W G2 power supply from this machine and move it over to the new one as well as now take out the Corsair PSU from the machine. While the RMi850 is a fantastic power supply, as it receives a 9.9 score on jonnyguru, the wattage is unnecessary for the x99 PC and would be better suited to my gaming rig considering it has a couple more drives & that I wish to go SLI in the future. I really should have thought that one through and just left it all, but I didn’t. I ended up wasting almost a full day taking out PSU’s, swapping them back over and re-routing all the cables and then trying to debug the RMi in the gaming rig (as I tried to use some braided cables instead of the ribbon cables for the sata, but the plug setup was different, causing nil post. On completing I took it outside and grabbed a few happy snaps I then got everything installed and got my Win10 done on a 7200rpm WD Black 2.5 inch drive. While I do like to have a windows install on my PC’s for firmware and other aspects I really did not need it to be on a SSD or anything like that as this PC is mainly for linux so I kept the speed for that aspect. I initially was unable to use the M.2 sata drive port as on the 1.8 firmware bios with the SLI PLUS did not register the included drive as bootable. A quick update in the bios firmware to 1.9 and that sorted that issue out. I then set about getting a stable overclock within windows. I used Intel burn in test (IBT) and AIDA64 as my main testing. I also ran Real bench as well which was good to assess instability without causing lockups and reboots. I tried very hard to get a stable 4.5Ghz on the core. I was pushing the chip to 1.3+V on the core. I didn’t necessarily like the temps I was seeing 80 degrees C or more as well as was suffering from some instability when pushing for long periods in IBT and Realbench. I settled on 4.4Ghz with 1.260v on the core. I was very stable at this. I then set about installing Linux. I booted up into Ubuntu Mate (I have used Lubuntu, Ubuntu, Debian in the past). At the moment I like the look of Ubuntu Mate, so I went with that. Initially I tried 15.10. I set everything up, android build environment, all my folders, yada yada. I then set about trying to build. I would then receive kernel errors, kernel oops with the latest kernel. I then tried to bump up the voltage to the voltage I have now. This did not solve my issue. I tried installing the latest mainline kernel for Ubuntu. This sort-of solved my issue, but now I would still get kernel oops for the old kernel. I then set about deleting/purging all the old kernel files to just follow mainline kernel. I then would still get the errors for the kernel (which would also show that the kernel was no longer installed, WTF??? Lol). I tried different methods, different linux versions then. I settled on Ubuntu Mate 14.04 LTS (my usual go to). I wasn’t getting the errors relating to kernel oops with the overclock popping up all the time. I then set about tracking the mainline kernel once again to see if there was any difference. Still no errors so I was good to go. Now I further tried to play with some bios settings to keep the thing stable; I set the CPU from dynamic to Fixed – this solved the ramping of the CPU within Linux to full overclocked state. I have set about now, running some benchmarks and to get some numbers for the system. Room Temp was around 32 degrees C. First here is some stats from CPU-Z validated Here is the PC at idle from HW monitor Here is the PC at load with AIDA64 with auto fan control Here is PC at load with AIDA64 on Manual Fans 100% Here is the noise of the fans, testing using android smart tools Ambient Room Fans Auto 35cm Away Fans Auto on top fan grill Fans 100% 35cm Away Fans 100% on top fan grill Here is the scores for 3D Mark tests – I purchased it during the steam winter sale for $5 =] Note – the graphics are just a GTX960 Windforce so don’t expect them to be awesome. Linux Here is the idle temps and load (pic of idle screen) Here is the PC building times for 64bit cyanogenmod based rom. (out folder size & and pic of completion) Here is the PC building times for 32bit cyanogenmod based rom. (out folder size & pic of completion)
  11. From the top of the SSD i have mounted in the slot to the top of the GPU it is about 117mm +/-1mm From the shroud itself it is 127mm +/-1mm the HDD bay cover can't be easily removed. There would be easy clearance as the PSU shroud does not extend into this area, but it wouldnt be seen so i see where your getting at.
  12. Few things yesterday 1. Two Molex to 2 x sata plug 2. 2m Cat6e Cable 3. 2m HDMI to DVI cable 4. USB3 to Sata connector Cable 5. 6.
  13. So I now have my CPU ordered and can hopefully pick it up tomorrow. All my ordered parts are schedules to arrive as well. Will need to harvest a couple components to get it all built from other pc (which will be replaced with new pieces once cash flow is resumed lol)
  14. Yes, with adequate ventilation you will be fine. it may get a tad hotter by being enclosed tho. If it was me, i would make a couple holes in the rear (because your going to need to route cables anyway) and use a little usb fan that can help expell hot air. The fan can be plugged into the ps4 or ps3 themselves to supply power
  15. holy crap this thing is awesome. fantastic work
  16. Here is my build log thread for what I’m calling - 99 Black Everyone has such cool project names so I figured I would name mine something as well Background While this PC will be nothing special in the x99 space, it is something that will be fun to document along the way as I order, receive parts and eventually build. I am a new comer to the x99 space. While to be honest I was actually going to go x99 a while back when building my full system (wow, almost a year ago now). It was price that scared me away, especially for my first real desktop PC build. Now that I am reaching the limits of speed/power my current I7-4790K can produce I thought it was time to step it up. I originally was holding out for Broadwell-e. I have been following the leaks for some time. I was hoping that on the lower enthusiast tier we would be receiving the 8 core glory, but leak after leak have swayed my thought on that we will only see a 6core/12 thread variant. While I know a leak is a leak and not a release, even just going by relative prices I am going to be better to build now and upgrade once skylake-e rolls around, with the build doing plenty fine until then. Purpose This PC will be primarily for the purpose of running Linux, building android and other development type stuff. I will have a graphics card in it (a GTX 960 Wind force harvested from my overkill media pc that just sucks too much power for the video playback), but it will not be for gaming. Most likely will be using it for some photo editing, small video, type stuff. I plan to keep my GTX970 within my ‘Joshndroid’ NZXT Noctis 450 red build, as it is colour matched red and because for the gaming I’m going, 1080p, it is not going to need x99 power. Parts I have a list of parts that will be going within the build. They will be as the name suggests, black. From what I can gather it will be very black, apart from a few logos and stickers (which may be removed). Colour Codes Green – Purchased/Awaiting shipping Blue – Already Own Red – Unsure/open to suggestions Case – NZXT S340 Black Motherboard – MSI x99A SLI Plus (black) CPU – i7 5820K Ram – Corsair Vengeance DDR4 2800Mhz Quad Channel 16Gb GPU – GTX 960 Wind force (Gigabyte) Storage – Samsung 950 Pro 512Gb NVME drive (Primary Build Drive) - Crucial 256Gb BX100 (Secondary Build Drive, also not black either hidden or painted black) - WD 1Tb (Unsure maybe Swap &/or Small Windows Partition) PSU – EVGA 80+ Gold something (probably harvest my G2 750w or use my Corsair CX650, till I can afford another good PSU) Lighting – NZXT Hue+ ?? Fans - Probably coolermaster jetflos I will be throwing up some pictures/doing updates as stuff arrives.
  17. have you set up any macros? maybe could reset any setting sback to default edit - already beaten to the settings reset above
  18. Welp, As i know what i am getting off everyone for christmas is cash (including some super late birthday inclusions) I purchased my parts a tad early to ensure i will get them by christmas. So today (being a sunday, with potential packing and dispatch tomorrow) leaves atleast 8-9 working days before christmas. As i am doing an x99 build I picked up a MSI X99A SLI board, because its almost pure black, cheap, USB 3.1 support and will be enough for what I need it for. I'm not a fan of gigabyte and asus boards are quite pricey for even their base models. I also found it hard going finding a suitable M-ITX sized board as that was my original plan, i did not want to go full sized and would have bought a much smaller case had i found a cheap, in stock, good enough board for me to use. I also purchased a quad channel kit of Corsair vengence 16gb DDR4 2800Mhz ram. The board i have has 8 slots, far to many for what i need, but it would look silly if i only populated 2 channels with ram so a quad kit it was. I then picked up a PWM fan splitter as these are handy and where i live, at least locally anyway, are never in stock or the ones that are, are double the price of buying from an online store. Pictures;
  19. Picked up a NZXT s340 black, for an upcoming x99 build. Decided after the minor revision on the low end of the x99 platform for broadwell-e I will just pick up a haswell-e 5820k (both 6 cores/12 threads, similar clock speed, similar tdp, with haswell-e being cheaper in AUS$ compared to leaked price of broadwell-e lower teir). It will complement nicely my Noctis 450 as well =]
  20. So i picked up one of these things for my 970 - Corsair N970. I wanted to utilize my H100 on it that was just laying around after i picked up a bigger 360mm AIO for the CPU. It took almost 2 months to become in stock after multiple delays. First impressions were good, it looked alright out of the box, exactly what I wanted. It went extremely downhill from there. I had one of the EVGA 970 cards listed as compatible, turns out it wasn't. There were numerous clearance issues with it hitting capacitors, etc. I had waited so long to get it I just got the drill out and drilled the holes for the capacitors and the fan connector, filed the edges and all was well. I went to connect the AIO cooler and the tubes barely fitted past the side or the fan. So i removed some of the shroud around the fan, filed, came out clean. The AIO still had fitment issues. I went back to the original layout and managed to get it fit and sit as best i could. Caused a bit of flex in my card (I didn't like that). Started testing, temps were absolutely terrible. Idle was fine, but load was 92-96 degrees C. The fan on the card itself did nothing for cooling and literally just made the sound of a fighter jet (with HW monitor showing 4000rpm on the GPU fan). Now i had push/pull jetflo's on the radiator so airflow across the radiator (with the rad sitting on the front of the case) was great. I tried everything, reseat, reapply thermal paste, waiting a few days for curation of the thermal paste, side panels on/off, day/night operation, everything. Looking at it closer I observed what i believe are the 2 biggest issues with it; 1st being fitment - the contact for the cooler to the GPU is literally only on the GPU die itself, thats it. No other contact. The cooler sits on the diagonal to the GPU die. The flex caused to the card also caused poor attachment 2nd being Barely, if any, air gets from that blower fan to the VRM's heatpipe/sink, a mouse blowing would do better and this is because of the way the cooler block sits, obstructing that air and there is no easy channel to direct the air efficiantly to the VRM's I then just put the air coolers back on and load temps with fresh paste on a 30 degree C day was 60-62 degrees C, massive improvement.
  21. whaaaat... what are you doing to these things lol. edit - how did i get like 9 quotes of the same quote... that was weird... even quoting you is failing lol
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