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    Used gaming laptop in Germany

    in Laptops and Pre-Built Systems

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Bismut said:

    Why a laptop in the first place? A PC will generally offer more performance and upgradeability, even an ITX system.

    Thats literally what I tell everyone asking me this haha! Its for a friend tho and they insist on a laptop 😕

    If it was about building a Desktop I wouldn't need any help 😛

    VR Suggestions

    in Peripherals

    Posted

    Hey everyone,

    Let's say hypothetically I had some money to spare rn and hypothetically I wanted to get into VR gaming for the first time.

    Let's say I went all crazy and got one of these:

    Kat VR

    Now what would be a good headset to pair this with? I was thinking the Meta Quest 2 or 3 maybe because it seems light and well supported and also tetherless.

    I would definitly want to play skyrim VR and also try some unofficial modded VR in Games like cyperpunk and Starfield.

    What else would I need?

    What are the optical sensors that are included in the Kat-VR bundle?

    What kind of setup would you recommend for being able to walk in VR?

    Thanks in advance!

    Can't decide on NAS HW-setup

    in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

    If you already own the hardware, there's no harm in throwing it together just to see how it runs. I bet the J1900 will easily saturate a Gigabit Ethernet connection off a pair of hard drives.

     

    A 100% flash NAS would theoretically draw less power, but it would take ages to pay back the additional purchase cost in power savings. (Not to mention that you won't see any speed benefits over just a single Gigabit connection; that's only 100 MB/sec over SMB.) You'll want a pair of small SSDs for the boot mirror though, and if you run a media server I highly recommend an additional SSD for the metadata and thumbnails. 

    You're right I should just try it out. And good point on the Gigabit speed... HDDs it is then 😄

     

    Can't decide on NAS HW-setup

    in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab

    Posted

    31 minutes ago, leadeater said:

    For a small amount of data RAID 1 would likely be the best. Don't forgot HDDs can spin down so comparing power usage isn't so straight forward.

     

    Going SSDs is of course nice and if only 2 storage devices is the most likely to have suitable performance for anything you could do. With only 2-4 SSDs I don't think they would be wasted on a Celeron J but performance will be limited.

     

    I'm leaning towards HDDs and have a single SSD for unimportant game installs that can be re-downloaded aka no real data loss.

    Thank you! The separate SSD for fast but non-redundant storage is a great idea! Will have to see how I'm going to implement that software-wise.

    Can't decide on NAS HW-setup

    in Servers, NAS, and Home Lab

    Posted

    Hey everyone,

    So I can't make up my mind about the NAS build I am planning.

    It starts with SSD or HDD. I would go for HDD because its still about half the price/TB compred to SSD but power consumption is considerable as I add drives...

    I live in Germany and pay 0,43 cents per kWh so yea... for a 20W system that is more than 70 Euros per year.

    Also I have a Celeron J1900 board that I want to use but then again I am unsure if SSD Storage is just wasted on such a low-power board.

    I plan on storing up to 10TB of research-related data (right now it's only about 2 TB but i like to have headroom) and use the rest for other things like game saves, movies, etc.

    I thought about just getting two 12 TB drives and running them in Raid 1 for now to see if I am actually going to use this system and if performance is ok...

    on the other hand I could splurge on 4TB m.2 SSDs and an Asus hyper-card but that would be kinda ridiculous wouldn't it? Also I wouldn't have parity/redundancy...

    What are your thoughts on this? what else should I consider?

    Help with 4 to 3pin argb fan adapter

    in Cooling

    Posted

    Hey everyone. 
    I have two fractal prisma rgb fans lying around and finally wanted to use them. I have no experience with rgb mods so please bear with me. My mobo has a 4 pin header labeled CPU_LED. Ideally I’d like to control two fans using this header. I’ve seen Y-cable from 4 to 3pin headers on Amazon but unsure if that’s safe and how I can control it in the end. I’d like to avoid buying an extra controller if possible. Any tips are greatly appreciated. 

    iOS App for logging work hours

    in Programs, Apps and Websites

    Posted

    14 hours ago, LogicalDrm said:

    I use this http://www.atimelogger.com/

     

    There are some small annoyances to my tidyness when it comes to numbers (you can select to not adjust seconds, but it doesn't round the seconds). I have used it for work hours, allocating hours for projects and to track school hours. At the moment I have widget on home screen to quickly start and stop the project time allocation, and I've set daily goal which will calculate total time used for work.

    Thanks! Will try this one!

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