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Thus future proofing.. Frankly, Myself I would not consider getting a monitor upgrade now until they come with Hdmi 2.1.. Even the new 3440x1440 with 200hz comes butchered without a Hdmi 2.1 meaning color compression to reach those 200hz, so you pay 3000 dollars and get a monitor that will be outdated with next Gpu series... Tv's already ship with Hdmi 2.1 If you run 1080p then you're good without it though, unless you aim for some crazy high hz. I skipped the 2080Ti also because Nvidia shipped it without Hdmi 2.1 - simply not worth it. I've ran 4K60 just fine for several years already, so unless it's getting past that it's not an upgrade :)

what about HDR? would be nice to be able to toggle that on/off as well

Anyone know where to get one, or any similar products? I NEED this

So, after reading a lot and seeing the various tips I currently got planned to get 10 x 8TB disks - and 1 8slot NAS and a 2 slot NAS. Then I plan to run for storage 6 drives in Raid 6 to get 32TB of storage with two disk "parity" For my own personal backup I then want to use one of the disks in the 8-slot NAS running no raid which is for my own backup files - the 2-slot NAS will be having an identical drive which I frequently copy the files over to. The last disk is also for backup files, and will also be using one drive on each NAS and will be my partners backup. The 2-slot NAS will be located at my parents house and copy will go over internet. Does the setup seem like a good idea, or does it have any flaws? Also, it should be fine to do incremental manual copies between the backup disk at my own home, and my parents home? Is there usualy a system for that within the NAS? or do I simply hook up both locations and copy through something like total commander? (to get easily incremental updates of the backup)

I currently got 100mb/s up and down - but gets a lot less through Dropbox since they have a capped limit on speed to them. About google I really don't like that they convert or really change my files in any way - I do as much lossless I can as well as 4K as I love high quality playback - so it's likely not for me - but I'm sure there are some other good options - but I feel that over time my best solution there is a second offsite NAS to care for my backups - as no service will give "unlimited" storage without some quirks to it. though for now I guess I'll focus on the onsite storage and how best to make that as safe as can be - and keep in mind that I should do a second offsite NAS at a later time. Ah of course, raid 50 means 5 and 0 - so it's striping the disks - but over multiple disks - so the more disks I got the less % I lose of storage capacity.. ? (compared to Raid 6) If a raid 50 goes down from a broken disk, I can simply order a new one and replace that faulty disk and I'll be back rocking it with no data loss?

Thanks for a fast and full response What is the difference between Raid 50 and Raid 6? I understand it as Raid 6 also spends two drives for redundancy? It will be very important files but personal still. Like family pictures, projects like a game I've worked on for 3 years etc. - but I will also keep a copy of those files on my computer. what is samba? I've looked at QNAP TS-831X-8G & TS-853A-8G, as well as Synology DiskStation DS1815+ & DS1817+ 8GB RAM All my video's are in 4K and are very large files, and it is many many thousand images - I easily take a couple thousand pictures during a holiday - and I record all my gf's handball matches - so there is quite a lot to back up. I read Google Photos is max video 1080p and some other limits - and not sure about their speed limit - Dropbox's speedlimit is high for a free service, yet still it takes ages to upload and download large chunks of files there - like many days. but it worked fine for backup purpose until we hit the 1TB limit.

I got two computers, and both have their storage depleted. One of them got 25 TB of data, and can't fit any more drives - even the Bluray player is disconnected in place of another 4 TB drive. So, I've figured it's time to get a NAS for the following reasons: 1: Up my storage capacity without having to replace my load of drives in the computer 2: Be able to back up my files to keep important files both on computer and NAS 3: To be able to access shared files between multiple machines and users - and thus canceling by Dropbox Pro subscription while multiplying my "personal cloud" storage by many many times. I'm good with computers in general, and I build and repair them now and then, but I've never done Raid on my drives, and never had a NAS - so I want to get some tips in order to make the right investment and the right setup. I am looking at maybe a QNAP or Synology "station" with 8 bays, and stuff in something like 8 x 8, 10 or 12 TB drives. That would give 64 TB without a raid, 32 TB in Raid 1, 56 TB in raid 5 and 48 TB in raid 6. I want to be able to have different folders (or what sub-structure a NAS operates with) for different users, so that I can have "public" shared folders, as well as personal folders with username (password) for different users to access their files. I also want to be able to have an "area" for backup - or perhaps actually opposite - to have an area of important files on the NAS - which I then have a backup of where the backup is stored on my own computer - since the NAS is the location that all users will access to watch our holiday pictures etc. I'd like tips on the following: 1: If I should run raid, and if so, which raid? Might I be better off getting the full storage capacity, and just let the backup on my computer ensure the safety off my data? (It could be nice to be able to add more drives later for more storage, without having to delete the entire raid and rebuild - and it's ok to wait for a new drive to arrive if one of the drives should fail - I don't have to have a spare waiting for a crash) 2: if Raid, should I have one large array? or one for backup, and another for the other ('unbackedup') files? 3: How to split files for different users to have different access rights? Just different main folders and set access on them? I also know that the likely best protection for my important files is to have them stored at a different location (other household) entirely, and this might be something I aim for - but with the current estimated cost of just one NAS and drives makes that a topic for later. I hope someone has some good info, and any tips on things I simply haven't thought of yet is also welcome.

I'm about to build a gaming rig for my home theatre, and I need it to run new games at 4K min 60 fps. I plan to run m.2 drive for os and games, and ssd for the rest, and I think about getting 2x 1080Ti's. Will I lose FPS by going with say 7700K which only has 16 Lanes (and 4 cores)? For most games I've played so far 4 cores clocked higher has played better than 8 cores clocked slower - but I've never done SLI before, and also not played in 4K earlier. I've been reading a bit around and it seem to be some saying it will only lose say 1fps at max - while some places state that the low count of lanes at 4K SLI will chop down a good chunk of FPS in certain games. I hope someone either know from testing or know of a valid benchmark of this which I have not yet found