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Yes, it is possible. Most people are still storing the majority of their games on hard drives, which have read speeds roughly in the neighborhood of around 150 Mb/s. Gigabit ethernet is about 110 Mb/s. You will see a bit of an increase in load times as opposed to a hard drive. You will see a LARGE increase in load times coming from an SSD, but it is doable. You might run in to trouble with games that constantly stream data from the hard drive, but I thing your biggest issue is going to come from the NAS itself. If it is a fairly powerfull unit, it'll be able to keep your connection saturated, however, if it's an underpowered device, it'll slow way down an cause you issues. 
 
It's easy to try out anyway. Just map a share a drive, install a game to it and give it a go.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This post is about running a game from a NAS. Networked Attached Storage. NETWORK. How the hell does thunderbolt even come up in this discussion. You obviously haven't the slightest clue of what you're talking about. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the sheer stupidity of the recommendation to use thunderbolt to as a networking method.
 
 I've seen you do this numerous times. Stop shitposting useless crap of which you know nothing about that only serves to confuse members who are seeking legitimate advice. 

Yes, it is possible. Most people are still storing the majority of their games on hard drives, which have read speeds roughly in the neighborhood of around 150 Mb/s. Gigabit ethernet is about 110 Mb/s. You will see a bit of an increase in load times as opposed to a hard drive. You will see a LARGE increase in load times coming from an SSD, but it is doable. You might run in to trouble with games that constantly stream data from the hard drive, but I thing your biggest issue is going to come from the NAS itself. If it is a fairly powerfull unit, it'll be able to keep your connection saturated, however, if it's an underpowered device, it'll slow way down an cause you issues. 
 
It's easy to try out anyway. Just map a share a drive, install a game to it and give it a go.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This post is about running a game from a NAS. Networked Attached Storage. NETWORK. How the hell does thunderbolt even come up in this discussion. You obviously haven't the slightest clue of what you're talking about. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the sheer stupidity of the recommendation to use thunderbolt to as a networking method.
 
 I've seen you do this numerous times. Stop shitposting useless crap of which you know nothing about that only serves to confuse members who are seeking legitimate advice. 

Yes, quite easily actually. Just be aware to do it means ripping the screen out of the laptop; there is no way to just add an HDMI in to a working laptop - sort of.
 
Open up the screen assembly on the laptop and get the part number off of the back - then just go on ebay and search for that part number and 'driver'. They usually go for about $30. Most of them will give you hdmi, dvi and vga inputs. Some have composite inputs as well. They will have backlight drivers on the same board and some include a separate board with push buttons to navigate an on screen menu for settings like brightness and contrast.
 
If you want to continue to use the laptop, although you can't DIRECTLY add HDMI input, what you could do is buy a USB HDMI video capture device. It's not ideal and would probably add a ton of latency, but your HDMI source looks like a webcam to the computer and you could then just use whatever software you want to play back that video feed full screen.

A lot (most) of these displays were sold to macbook users - as the magsafe port would suggest. If the previous owner was someone that plugged and unplugged their macbook into the display multiple times a day, the actual displayport connector may be faulty. One of my 24" displays has a connector on it's way out - sometimes I have to wiggle the connection to the DP-mDP adapter to get it to turn on.
 
For what it's worth the adapter that I'm using is the Startech adapter from amazon. You can try getting a friend with a macbook to plug in to the display directly. The Original Surface Pro tablet also has a mDP plug and I can confirm that it drives my displays perfectly. I haven't opened up the flaky connector on my screen so I can't give you any further advice on how to possibly repair it.
 
I've seen replacement cables on ebay, but they are about $80 and you have to take apart the entire display to change it.

That looks TERRIBLE!!! It's SVGA resolution - that means it's 4:3 aspect and 800x600 resolution.
 
I have the older version of the Optoma GT760. It's projecting a 120" image from 6 feet away. I've had it for 5 years and my bulb life is still at just about 50%. It even does 3D with cheap eBay DLP link glasses. Epson makes some nice projectors too, but keep a close eye on the resolution.
 
Basically, expect to pay $700-$1000 for a decent projector. The quality takes a nosedive below the $700 mark.

Sandy Bridge Xeons are CHEAP!
 
Here's a quad core e3-1220 for $38
 
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Intel-Xeon-E3-1220-3-1GHz-8MB-5GT-s-4-Thread-SR00F-LGA-1155-Server-Processor/183183975865?hash=item2aa69da5b9:g:~bIAAOSw8Zha1n0g
 
Supermicro server board for $50 including heatsink. Dual network ports PLUS IPMI for remote management and six onboard SATA ports - no need to buy an add on card for more ports.
 
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Supermicro-X9SCL-Server-MBD-Intel-C202-Chipset-Socket-H2-LGA-1155-HeatSink/273150331030?hash=item3f99074896:g:KVUAAOSwRypZjf-J
 
This board supports (requires?) ECC RAM. Which is a good thing because it's ECC and more importantly because older and slower server memory pricing hasn't gone full retard lately. I just bought 48GB of ECC DDR3 the othe day for $210 Canadian. Here's 8GB for $50
 
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Hynix-8GB-4x2GB-PC3-10600E-DDR3-1333Mhz-240PIN-CL9-ECC-Unbuffered-UDIMM-Memory/362188389340?hash=item54541c3bdc:g:rlwAAOSwA~VaNJv2
 
Get two of the 16GB Samsung SSDs. Yes 16GB. You set them up in a software RAID 1 mirror set for your boot device. You don't need anything bigger than that for your OS. NEVER, EVER put your OS and your data on the same drive. These are server grade drives and should last forever, but keeping them in a RAID 1 will ensure that if one of them fails, your OS will keep happily running along with no downtime for the users. These are going for $18, but I have seen and purchased some for as low as $12/each.
 
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Samsung-16GB-MLC-2-5-SATA-II-SSD-Solid-State-Drive-MMBRE16G5MSP-0VA-R418N/322977790548?hash=item4b32f9fa54:g:CrUAAOSwh1haRxxY
 
 
For power supply, just go with Seasonic. In my experience and opinion they are absolutely bulletproof. Look what $25 gets you. An overkill 430 watt unit that will outlive you.
 
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/SeaSonic-S12-II-SS-430GB-430W-ATX12V-SLI-Ready-CrossFire-Ready-80-PLUS-Certified/183186838796?hash=item2aa6c9550c:g:HycAAOSwMh5a2OKl
 
Get four drives for storage and you're good to go. You can get WD Red NAS 2tb drives for about $50. Put the four in RAID5 and you have 6TB of Storage with the ability to loose one data drive and not loose any data. Plus you can pick up a 6TB external drive for $100 and back up your complete RAID array for offsite storage.
 
 
Not counting your data drives, the auctions I linked add up to $199 US. Another $200 for the four drives and $100 for a external back up device puts you at $500. That's for top quality server grade hardware. 
 
Oh and FYI - that's the exact mobo and CPU that I was running on my Plex server. With 16GB of RAM, it has enough horsepower to transcode 4 simultaneous 1080p streams and saturate a 10gb network card while recording from 4 security cameras to a RAID1 array.  

If there's Bell lines, there's Bell service. Skip the middleman and go straight to Bell?

I'd leave it set to "higher speed". Plex should do it automatically, but you never know.

Stay with 10Gb. That video is a joke and Linus should be ashamed of making that. I have two of those Mellanox cards. I bought them together for $14 each. You can get SFP+ transceivers for those cards from Fiberstore for about $17 each and I picked up 80 feet of optical cable for under $20 from Fiberstore as well. When you're shopping for transceivers you'll want SR (short range) tranceivers with LC connectors.
 
Without any optimization, doing file transfers to a FreeNAS server with SMB, I'm getting around 700-800 MB/s transfers.
 
Be aware that FreeNAS does NOT support the Mellanox cards. I'm using a Chelsio 310 card that I picked up for about $50 including transceiver in the FreeNAS server. 

TCP segment is the protocol data unit which consists a TCP header and an application data piece (packet) which comes from the (upper) Application Layer. Transport layer data is generally named as segment and network layer data unit is named as datagram but when we use UDP as transport layer protocol we don't say UDP segment, instead, we say UDP datagram. I think this is because we do not segmentate UDP data unit (segmentation is made in transport layer when we use TCP).
 
Hope this helps
 

For what it's worth, I have a Melanox 10Gb card in an i7 4790k desktop and a Chelsio 10Gb card in an i3 4140 FreeNAS server with a 11x2TB Z2 vdev. I'm getting between 780 - 820 MB/s transfers using using SMB with ZERO optimization, didn't even enable jumbo frames.
 
Maybe something else amiss in your configuration that you didn't notice?

Extending is weird and very specific. The easiest way to grow a pool is by swapping out the individual drives one at a time with larger drives. Once all drives have been replaced with a larger size, the pool will auto grow to the new size.
 
It's a lot more complicated than that, but the manual and the forums will explain it better than I can.

No need to spend $1800. I just bought two Supermicro X9-SCM boards from two different people. One came with a Xeon 1220 and 16Gigs ECC for $250, the other came with a Pentium G630t and 8gigs ECC for $130.
 
eBay and forum marketplaces are your friends.

Hitachi hasn't made hard drives in years. HGST is now owned by WD, HGST drives are known to be some of the most reliable drives you can get. Toshiba are also pretty good; haven't seen to many hard numbers, but I'd say at least on par with WD.
 
Speed wise - Hard drives are all pretty similar in speeds when comparing drives with equal RPM rates.

Yes, it is possible. Most people are still storing the majority of their games on hard drives, which have read speeds roughly in the neighborhood of around 150 Mb/s. Gigabit ethernet is about 110 Mb/s. You will see a bit of an increase in load times as opposed to a hard drive. You will see a LARGE increase in load times coming from an SSD, but it is doable. You might run in to trouble with games that constantly stream data from the hard drive, but I thing your biggest issue is going to come from the NAS itself. If it is a fairly powerfull unit, it'll be able to keep your connection saturated, however, if it's an underpowered device, it'll slow way down an cause you issues. 
 
It's easy to try out anyway. Just map a share a drive, install a game to it and give it a go.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
This post is about running a game from a NAS. Networked Attached Storage. NETWORK. How the hell does thunderbolt even come up in this discussion. You obviously haven't the slightest clue of what you're talking about. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the sheer stupidity of the recommendation to use thunderbolt to as a networking method.
 
 I've seen you do this numerous times. Stop shitposting useless crap of which you know nothing about that only serves to confuse members who are seeking legitimate advice. 

That has nothing to do with the actual wired connection. A wired connection is 100% secure. Nobody can see what is being transferred unless they can physically access the wiring or the switch that the wring is plugged into. Once the traffic moves out of the physical wire and into the switch/router, it is no longer an issue of the wired connection being insecure, it is an issue of the traffic being insecure - but this makes no difference whether you are on wired or wireless. 
 
The work, home, public settings that you are referring to have nothing to do with the wired connection; they apply to any connection, wired or wireless and they affect such things as file sharing and network discovery. Again, those are things which are issues that affect both wireless and wired.
 
If you are talking about your home network, stop obsessing about "security". Read through all that material that I gave you the link to and then if you have any questions, ask.

Thunderbolt cannot be used as an ethernet cable. What you CAN do is IP over thunderbolt. Far from being the same thing.
 
That would require that OP have a Thunderbolt capable computer or add in thunderbolt cards to every computer or at the very least his computer and his NAS. As far as I'm aware, you can't even buy Thunderbolt 3 add in cards right now. But if you look at thunderbolt 2, add in cards are over $100 each and to get a 30 foot long thunderbolt 2 optical cable, it would set you back around $300. Plus, unless OP wants cables lying around on the floor, he'd have to break open walls to run the wiring inside.
 
It is only no a realistic solution, it's a stupid idea since even the fastest SATA SSDs are limited to 6Gb/s. If you were going to suggest anything at all involving changing hardware, the proper answer would have been that OP upgrade some of his networking gear to 10Gb/s stuff.

We're not sure what sort of RAID solution that OP is going to for, so we'll discount the parity calculation overhead. Writing to a six drive RAID10 will NOT be faster than writing to a six drive RAID6. With the RAID10, you are striping the data across three drives; With the six drive RAID6, you are striping data across four drives. Obviously striping across four will be faster. The only time the RAID10 would be faster is if it s a software RAID array running on woefully underpowered hardware that cannot calculate parity fast enough. I'm running FreeNAS on a i3 with RAIDZ2 (RAID6) and I can easily achieve 700MB/s write speeds.
 
As far as redundancy, RAID6 can loose two drives without losing any data; RAID10 could lose one drive or up to three drives without any data loss. Or it could lose two drive and you'd lose the array, if it were the wrong two drives. The fact is that RAID10 can only safely and reliably loose on drive; anything after that is a gamble.

UBNT.ca has the Lite and LR in stock right now.
 
Edit: 169 of the Lite and 35 of the LR in stock

They also have the AC Pro in stock in 5 packs.

UBNT.ca has the Lite and LR in stock right now.
 
Edit: 169 of the Lite and 35 of the LR in stock

A 6 drive RAID10 array can only safely lose one drive; same as RAID 5. May as well go with RAID 5 and have one drive wasted as opposed to three drives wasted.

Six terabytes is a lot of data to rebuild; those drives would be going for a very, very long time rebuilding, I'd be worried about loosing a second drive during the rebuild. I'd also want to know how the RAID controller that would be used would handle UREs. The likelihood of encountering would would be pretty significant when rebuilding from 30 TB. 

A 6 drive RAID10 array can only safely lose one drive; same as RAID 5. May as well go with RAID 5 and have one drive wasted as opposed to three drives wasted.

I'm just going to leave this here:
 
http://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/current/html/
 
Edit:
 
I may come off as abrasive sometimes, but it's because so many of the people in this forum want to be helped, but refuse to try to help themselves. You seem like you genuinely want to learn but it's going to be tough for you to learn anything from the types of questions that you're asking since the answer will only make sense when you understand the underlying principles. I can't explain layer three networking if you have no idea what layer two is and for layer two to make sense, you have to understand layer one.
 
That link is A LOT of reading, but take your time to go through it, make sure you understand the concepts as you move through each section and in three or four weeks you'll be here answering questions, instead of asking them.
 
Now, go fishing.