Madmanchris1

Welcome to becoming an adult, enjoy the next soul crushing 60 years!

They are physical DLC that have an NFC chip thhat you use with games

Every Wii U owner should have:
- Splatoon
- Mario Kart 8
- Smash Bros
- Bayonetta 1+2
- Super Mario 3D World
 
Other than that, I'd suggest you get a Wii U Pro Controller for multiplayer and for single player stuff when you don't want to use the GamePad. Then if you don't have it a WiiMote + Nunchuck combo is probably worth getting both for backwards compatibility (it'll allow you to get Wii games, some you can download) and for some Wii U titles. NintendoLand in particular is a pretty decent party game which requires WiiMotes. But really, 90% of the time I'm playing games on mine it's on the GamePad. A quick round of Mario Kart during half-time, that sort of thing.
 
With Amiibos, it's complicated. Mostly the value in them is the fact that they're nice little figurines. I wouldn't think of them as "DLC" but in a way that's kinda what they are. Mostly you use them to unlock largely cosmetic features in games, often stuff related to the character it is. For example if you scan MegaMan into Mario Kart you get a MegaMan hat. There's a Yoshi game coming out where you can unlock different patterned Yoshi's when you scan an Amiibo. Then there are some games where they have specific unlocks. In Splatoon the Splatoon Amiibo unlock a challenge mode which gives you access to more gear. Basically if you really like Pacman, for example, you can buy a Pacman figurine that will also unlock Pacman related things in some games. That's how I'd look at it.

I'm still undecided but at this point Win7 or Server 2012
 
and on do i need it topic maybe not the whole 
*Raw Storage: 144.0 TB
*Usable Storage: 109.1 TB
But i'm trying to future proof for 3-5years my current storage array is just over 34tb of personal data and work
 
Any recomandations on OS?
 
 

So although there were only 14 valid entries i couldn't be bothered wait for one more. 
 
winner picked with number gen
 
The winner is Dlf , will pm you now.
 
Thanks for them memes/ jokes! 

Define 'best'. Thermal conductivty? Liquid Pro, hands down.
However, if you find it annoying to have to sand your CPU once you replace your cooler you might want to look elsewhere.

yes but the platform thing needs to be removed as well. the top drive cage can stay in on its own. i just had a look in my luxe and i don't see a problem with this although it might be a tightish fit ( will know better once ive put my rig in its new house)

Go with the white lights and make the red pop.

Well thats actually nice to know since I dont have the money to pre-order it at the moment but it will be used in my next build in November or December.

I can't really think of a better motherboard that has two ethernet ports, but I can tell you that it is compatible with the 4770K.
 
As for the case, it is a pretty damn good case. If you like it, I can't really think of a reason to get it. Only other case that I think might be as good would be the Enthoo Pro, but I'm not sure if the watercooling is as good or better, and if you would like the looks of it more (haven't looked at the case in quite some time).

@Madmanchris1 You can just tell FreeNAS to use an IP (do it from the CLI menu), and your router should detect that. If some other device is using it, shut that device down first, then the router will detect that FreeNAS is using a static IP. You can do something similar with your IPMI interface.

thanks will be checking out the freenas forums now.

Finally reached 100k points with 640 WU's, positioned 747. All from Light folding on the Chrome App. lol.

Just paging @MG2R in case he hasn't seen this yet and might be
interested.
Also: Yes, IPMI freaking rocks!

Woooo 1 Million points! 

Yes, Yes it is.

My brain... it can't handle this anymore.

I would say to him, I will come to your house, when I see the PC in front of me I will use my mobile to transfer the money, and I will take the PC immediately.
 
If he has any issue with that, scam.
 
Also, no GPU, I wouldn't pay more for what he is selling second hand.

Very sketchy, ask him why he only accepts bank transfer. see if you can look at it before you buy it.

oh and btw http://randomcat.tk/cycle.html refreshes for you

If you go for FreeNAS you want ZFS. If you go for UFS (standard RAID like RAID5 or RAID 10 or RAID6) another solution
might be better for you. FreeNAS basically is developed to run ZFS. You have the option to go for UFS but like I said the
whole development of this platform didn't really focus around that.
 
If you want to go for ZFS you have to pay attention to a few things. You need rigid hardware. The kind of hardware that's
server grade. ZFS works different than other systems. Every data package that's been written gets a checksum to make
sure the data cannot be damaged in any way and what you get when reading from drives is what you originally stored
for 100% of all packages read. That is the biggest advantage for ZFS in my opinion but it comes at a cost. A system that's
focussed on undamaged files is very vulnerable to any kind of corruption.
 
Then again ZFS is far more speedy than standard systems. This is because ZFS isn't just a RAID system. It's the combination
of a filesystem and a volume manager. This gives deep access in the way how the data is accessed to. This becomes obvious
when you look at how the accesses are handled. Data isn't just read from drives like in standard RAIDs, it's being cached into
the RAM before it's even read. For example you store a file to your ZFS raid. What happens is: your server creates a checksum
for every data package, then metadata is created to see what data is in connection to it. You store data package 1 and since
it's a file consisting of multiple packages you have to write package 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 to the drive as well. So your meta
data will be: package 1 is accessed so packages 2 3 4 and 5 will be accessed as well. So what ZFS does is: it takes all this
information into account when accessing package 1 and schedules all other packages to be read. This can happen in the fast
way possible, so for example the actual order of accessing the packages is 1 4 3 5 and then 2 because it's faster accessible
from the way how the data is stored to the drives. Because of that you can get an immensely higher speed of accessing your
data. For writing data it's different as well. Data is cached into the RAM first, dependencies and metadata + checksums is
generated by the CPU and after that it's written to the drives in a way that focusses on being able to access it as fast as possible.
Yet again this comes at a price. RAM! You need lots of it and in general the more the better. For private users there is a cap
somewhere since the overall data being sent is going to be limited. You don't have 10k virtual machines accessing the drives
continuously. But you can say for data handling purposes you shouldn't go for less than 1GB RAM per TB of storage (not usable
storage, I mean raw storage). This sums up to 32TB+ easily and you have to take this into account when building a FreeNAS
solution, especially with 5TB+ being available and with the option of extending your storage in the future.
 
Another big feature of ZFS RAIDs is the way they are rebuilt if a drive fails on you. It's far faster and more secure than with standard
RAIDs. Since FreeNAS knows what's written on the drives since it's not only a volume manager but a file system as well. This means
that not every single sector on the drive needs to be replicated but just the written ones. Then you got checksums which makes it
possible to add another layer of security for really rebuilding the data without mistakes. This doesn't come with any cost.
 
 
So as a summary: you want hardware that eliminates any sorts of errors. That means at least ECC RAM, a server grade CPU and a
quality board. Then you need lots of RAM and a slightly stronger CPU than you would need for UFS based RAIDs.
 
What you get for it is an immensely increased amount of data security and a respectable amount of speed increase even when not
working with SSD drives for caching purposes. In other environments it's likely to be your drives limiting the transfer speeds, in ZFS
RAID environments it's most likely Samba instead since it's basically single thread, if not configured manually (so CPU core speed
is the deciding factor). Even then it's at least +50MB/s (in smaller environments) so it's definitely respectable). 
 
 
 
 
Ok what's RAID1? It's mirroring the files of one drive to another. When writing you have to write it on both drives simultaneously.
When accessing data you can read package 1 from drive 1 and package 2 from drive 2 at the same time. Theoretically that means
double speed.
 
OK! what's RAID10? It's a combination of RAID0 and RAID1. Since the advantages of RAID1 are obvious I continue to RAID0. It
splits data packages to 2 drives. So part 1 is stored on drive 1 and part 2 is stored on drive 2. That means that writing and reading
the files will be doubled in theoretical environments since both can happen at the same time. For RAID10 that means data is written
with twice the speed of 1 drive and read 4 times as fast as from 1 drive.
 
So what should you go for? Make sure what you need. Do you access your data from a single client in home use? In that case you
will be fine with RAID1 since the limiting factor will be the network for most of the times. Do you access your data from multiple
clients? If so, do you plan on bonding multiple network interfaces? If not, RAID1 will still do the job since the network will still be the
limiting factor. If you plan on bonding, RAID10 will be better.
 
A note: Consider using JBOD. I will contribute with a post i did recently:
 
For hardware recommendations: Madmanchris1 is building pretty much the go to build. I saw him contributing in
lots of discussions for FreeNAS and ZFS based solutions. He knows what he does since we discussed this matter over and over
with lots of information and with a lot of guys on the forums. Use a forum search for FreeNAS to get a lot of information on this
regard. It's sleeping somewhere on later forum pages. For even smaller environments the AsRockRack C2550D4I board with an
embedded Avoton CPU (Server Atom) can be the go-to solution but just judging the price-performance ratio Madmanchris1
is going with the best option. The difference will mainly be: 200MB/s vs. 350MB/s maximum transfer speeds and being able to
transcode 3 1080p streams to mobile devices simultaneously vs 1 stream. Not too much of a difference so it's more a future orientated
build with taking 10gbe networking into consideration. Like I said, replicate his build and you are fine.
 
 
/edit: hope I helped you out, just ask if something isn't clear

Haha thats not an apartment, its a garage in my parents house i converted to have a bigger room.

So I'm Building a Nas and thought that people would like to see my progress and build.
 
The reason i'm making this Nas is because I've got quite a lot of media (films) that are only accessible on my main pc. I'm working away a lot so i wanted to be able to view my media from the hotels i'm staying at. I want to make a fairly high grade nas which is also upgrade able.
 
Hardware:
 
Case: Fractal Node 304 (arrived)
 
Mobo/CPU: ASrock C2750D4I  (waiting for it to arrive)
 
Ram: Kingston Technology KVR16E11/8 8GB DDR3 1600Mhz ECC DIMM Memory with Thermal Sensor (arrived) (will expand when needed)
 
PSU: Seasonic SS-250SU 250W ( arrived)
 
HDD: WD Reds 6 x 3TB (going to buy Friday)
 
 
For my OS i will be using freenas. i'l go into detail about how to install it with ipmi and will go over a lot of the features of the board. 
If there's anything you'd like me to test or take pictures of let me know in the comments.
 
This is basically going to be about my experience with installing a nas from a beginners perspective and the problems i face. il update this as much as i can but i'm only home on the weekends.
 
All my components should arrive by Friday and i don't get home till Friday so i cant take any pictures until then.
 
 

Haha thats not an apartment, its a garage in my parents house i converted to have a bigger room.

I want your apartment!!