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You would likely be better off going with UnRaid over TrueNAS considering your budget. While it isn't free like TrueNAS, UnRaid is much easier to expand. It also allows the mixing of different capacity drives. As for processors, it doesn't matter at all as long as it is an x86 CPU from Intel 4th gen or Ryzen or newer. Ecc isn't essential especially with it being cold storage. A 10g switch is very overkill. If you need more than gigabit you will likely need to hardwire all the pc's to a switch since your router likely doesn't have a 2.5gbe port. If you can find an old prebuilt PC with the specs you need, you could throw some drives in it and be done. Old prebuilt s can usually be found for super cheap. Stay away from Dell prebuilt due to their use of proprietary hardware. Also you will need 2.5g nics in all the clients. If you can find a switch with 1 2.5g and the rest normal gigabit ports, you can connect the 2.5g port to the nas. Also having a nas is not a good backup solution on it's own. You should use an off-site backup service in conjunction with you had such as backblazes small business backup plan. Anyways best of luck.

are the connectors for sata and molex interchangable? in the future I plan to upgrade from drives just sitting on mounts to a hotswap system like this and it requires 2 molex power cables per drive cage. I will have 3 in total.

So I recently build an unraid setup and own 7 drives. 4 are currently connected and fully set up and I have 3 that I will set up once I get my HBA card. The issue im having is power. What power supplies come with lots of SATA connectors? im not too concerned about wattage since im not using a GPU and am only running an i7-8700 (non-k). most of my molex connectors are being used by fans so I dont think using a molex to sata adapter would work. If all else fails I could run a dual PSU setup since the AZZA GT1 I have supports it, but I would definitely rather not. So I'm curious what ATX PSU's yall are using to connect all yalls hard drives. (Im looking to have a total of 12 HDD's connected by the end of the build.) Id also prefer not to spend an excessive amount of money on a power supply that is larger than what I need.

get yourself a cheap prebuilt with intel UHD 630 graphics or newer for around $200. if youre only looking for 2 bays, it should suit you fine and can even do 4k transcoding using quicksync. something like an optiplex 7060 or an hp. 2 bay NAS systems generally arent worth the price from what ive seen.

I've only been using an external monitor.

Hi everyone, I've been having trouble with stuttering on my laptop when using an eGPU. First I'll start off with my laptop specs MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF Intel Core i7-8750H w/ Intel HD Graphics (iGPU) Nvidia GTX 1070 (dGPU) Nvidia RTX 2080 Super (eGPU) in Akitio Node Pro 32GB DDR4 RAM 2 M.2 SSDs Windows 11 Pro insider. So now for the explanation of the issue. I recently got an Akitio Node Pro TB3 eGPU enclosure and a RTX 2080S to pair with it. However, I quickly noticed heavy stuttering in game and during stress tests. After doing some research online, I found the most likely culprit to be Nvidia Optimus. I believe this is the case because disabling the 1070 dGPU solves the issue as does having a load on the dGPU while using the egpu. However I don't like the thought of disabling both the iGPU and dGPU since I would like to use the dGPU for Stream labs encoding while I game on the 2080s. So this is where I hand the mic to you after asking if y'all have any solutions. Maybe something like a program that will keep a small 5 or 10 percent load on my 1070 at all times? Like an OpenGL program that constantly renders in the background. Thank you in advance!

So I've been needing to upgrade my storage for a while now and Ive been going back and forth between using a NAS and using a TB Raid enclosure. Either way I need at least 4 bays and it needs to support RAID 5. The usecase for this array would be as a media server. This means the NAS would have to have the horses to handle up to 4k media. My PC would definitely be able to handle it if I went with the TB solution, though it should be noted that my PC is only capable of TB3. Currently with my living situation (college dorm,) I dont have access to network settings, but I'm pretty sure I could solve that issue by buying a router/access point. Also, if I am using a NAS, it would need to support SSD caching. I'm not opposed to building my own NAS, but from what I've seen, prebuilt solutions can be had for very similar prices with no headache of complicated setup. That being said, I'd appreciate any advice as to what I should do. Also any suggestions as to products or a build/part list would be great.

A GTX 1070 is no slouch lol. You'd be surprised at the power it can output. but seriously, more demanding titles will draw well over 500 watts and at a target of 4 hrs, a battery just isnt gonna cut it short of a tesla powerwall. but then again, I dont expect anyone to pay $30k for a ups solution outside of the enterprise world.

your setup is uh.... kinda overkill for what youre doing lmao. Like my 2018 MSI GS65 Stealth thin can run WoW at 1440p with FPS pinned at 120 fps. your PC would 100% definitely hit way higher than 500W if you played any games that are more demanding.

Do you mind if I asked what games youre playing and at what settings? also what GPU is that? and CPU.

There's no way that rig is pulling 500W from the wall during peak gaming. I think you should get a dedicated tester before you assume the UPS is reporting correctly. Im not saying you're lying but you should definitely confirm the accuracy of that reading.

Yeah I mean thats always an option but Im gonna keep it real with you for a moment. If your entire setup is only pulling 500 watts while gaming, you dont have top of the line hardware. My advice to you if youre serious about spending this kind of cash is to buy a gaming laptop and sell your desktop. Take the Predator Helios 500 SE for example. Its rocking an RTX 3080 and an I9 11900H at the price of $2700. Assuming you take the amount you were about to spend on a generator and the amount you could get for selling your desktop, you wouldn't be paying much more in the end. Plus you get the portability of a laptop.

Yes but the main issue here is the fact that you will be constantly charging and discharging the batteries if its used as a ups. The cells will have effectively died after a couple of months of use. especially at that high of a load.

Also @Blindsay This is the formula for how long your PC will run according to Bluetti's own website. Therefore, 2000Wh * .90 * .88 / 500 = 3.168 hrs. This is assuming it is brand new and the cells havent degraded over continuous charge and discharge cycles. Dut to the fact you will be using it as a UPS you can expect battery performance to degrade extremely quickly. This thing will be a paperweight in a matter of months. The cells aren't designed to handle continuous loads like that.

I meant for the lead acid batteries. lead acid batteries on their own will not have a built in inverter lol