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    SinghKing reacted to RadiatingLight in Which edition of GTX1070 would you guys suggest?   
    Don't be jumpy.
    PSUs can work perfectly after 20 years. it doesn't matter.
    that's why it's always good to get a high-quality PSU, and then keep it forever.
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    SinghKing reacted to aisle9 in Which edition of GTX1070 would you guys suggest?   
    How old is that GS600? If it's a 5-6yo unit, you might consider taking advantage of the holiday sales to put a new PSU in there. Might also be running perfectly, but I tend to get jumpy about putting shiny new GPUs in a system with an old PSU.
     
    I'm using the MSI Gaming X 1070 and loving it. It's one of the quietest video cards I've ever owned. I'd advise staying away from any EVGA offering with the ACX 3.0 cooler for now, as there's a pretty serious manufacturing oopsie involving thermal protections not being in place, resulting in a few 1070 and 1080 FTW cards catching fire and/or exploding.
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    SinghKing reacted to BryceAC in Which edition of GTX1070 would you guys suggest?   
    Sounds like the ASUS Strix is the one for you then.
    Realistically though, the difference in performance across cards will be barely noticeable.
     
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    SinghKing reacted to BryceAC in Which edition of GTX1070 would you guys suggest?   
    Not that I know of.
    Some problems can arise when overclocking, but you previously mentioned that you wouldn't be overclocking very much, so it should be fine.
    If there are any problems, you should be able to claim it on warranty and either ASUS or the store you bought it from should provide a suitable replacement or refund. 
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    SinghKing reacted to BryceAC in Which edition of GTX1070 would you guys suggest?   
    I've personally had better experiences with ASUS cards myself, mainly down to the quality of the components, the included software packages and the relatively quiet noise levels whilst still maintaining good temps.
    So I'd recommend the Strix version of the 1070, although I'm not sure about Canadian pricing.
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    SinghKing reacted to BryceAC in Which edition of GTX1070 would you guys suggest?   
    Hi, it generally depends on:
     - if you want a blower type cooler or an internal exhaust style.
        - if internal exhaust, how many fans
     - some editions are quieter, which is generally ideal, but can have a slight impact on cooling performance. 
     - overclocking potential
     - colour scheme, matching with build, etc
     - brand preference
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    SinghKing reacted to RadiatingLight in Which edition of GTX1070 would you guys suggest?   
    Well basically, since they all basically preform the same, get the cheapest one that has all the features you want and a decent cooler. (just don't get some crap like the ASUS Turbo) Basically, any non-blower style card from ASUS, MSI, EVGA, GIGABYTE, ZOTAC, Etc. will be perfect.
     
    note that you might want to invest in a card with an 8 pin and a 6 pin PCI-E power connector, as my 1070 with only an 8-pin hits power limits before any other limit while overclocking.
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    SinghKing got a reaction from Vitalius in Small Office NAS Setup   
    I ended up going with Synology, and it ended up being a dream to work with! It was the perfect solution for me. Thanks all of you guys for help!
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    SinghKing got a reaction from d33g33 in Small Office NAS Setup   
    I ended up going with Synology, and it ended up being a dream to work with! It was the perfect solution for me. Thanks all of you guys for help!
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    SinghKing reacted to nicklmg in 1 Million Subscribers - Thank you all! And a giveaway!   
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    SinghKing reacted to d33g33 in Small Office NAS Setup   
    If you mean SHR not exactly Raid 5 on the Synology, SHR is Synology's expandable RAID-5 that is done through software, where true RAID-5 is done at a hardware level. If's confusing don't worry too much.
     
    if you have a Synology DS413 for example. And the unit dies completely, you can buy a another DS413 and throw the drives in, in the same order and you should be fine. Depending on how crucial your Data is you could have a DS413 and then a DS213j or something similar for your main unit to sync back to... all comes down to how important the data is, and how much you're able to spend. Using SyncToy and an external drive for critical data is another option. If something goes wrong with your Synology OS or Config, their tech support has been exceptionally good to me. Being a home user I would think they would treat their business users even better.
     
    I haven't used FreeNAS so I cant comment, but if you build your own then you are the support for the hardware and the OS/Config, the only help you will get is from forums I would assume.
     
    Adding a network printer is easy, just give it an IP that makes sense and falls into your standard IP addressing of your network. 192.168.1.100 or something like that, it will be done through the config menu on the device somewhere. As you shouldn't need any special functions in an office environment just download the manufacturers PCL6 drivers and have them installed on each computer. Then just go to printers and drivers on each computer, add printer, by network, put in the IP you set on the printer, the rest should be straight forward.
     
    I have used a couple of NAS devices. A QNAP, Thecus and Synology. In my mind the Synology is the best price for performance. Usernames and Passwords for the data shares can be created on the NAS for secure access. Going off what you've told me probably best not to take a managed domain approach so this should server you perfectly.
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    SinghKing reacted to Vitalius in Small Office NAS Setup   
    Your situation describes our own except that we are larger (more clients, and we have 50 employees with 70 PCs and 12-15 servers) and we handle different confidential information.
    I would avoid RAID 5 in general personally. I just don't like it as it's strong point is keeping server running when a drive fails, and that's it. It's not backup. It doesn't improve performance, and it costs you drive space (albeit less than RAID 1). WD Reds can handle it fine, but even then, I don't see the benefit for a small company l like yours.
    I would either do RAID 1 or no RAID at all and just backup to external drives every week or so. RAID 1 can be done with as many drives as you want IIRC. FreeNAS is intelligent at reading with ZFS, so RAID 1 is RAID 0 for reads (not writes) which is nice for performance reasons.
     
    RAID 1 means that even if a drive dies, no one has to touch the server until you get a chance to help them with it. Whereas, RAID 5 means you need to replace the drive ASAP. Chance wise, they are the same in terms of risk, but if you just have multiple (3 or 4) drives in RAID 1, then that risk changes (i.e. if two drives fail while you don't have time to help them replace one with RAID 5, you are hosed. If two fail with a RAID 1 of two drives, then you are hosed, but not so if you have 3-4 drives in RAID 1). 
    Backups. Backups. Backups. If I were you, I would get a 4TB external drive at some point and teach someone at the company how to Copy and Paste on a Friday so it can do it's job over the weekend, then take that external drive home on Monday (rinse repeat every week). 
    Even if the building burns down, you are current up to a week's time.
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    SinghKing reacted to Vitalius in Small Office NAS Setup   
    No idea on either of those. I've never found a "one stop shop" style go-to source for NAS info. Remember, a NAS is just a PC specifically for sharing data. That's it. So anything you'd want to do from a NAS' perspective would be the same from a normal PC's perspective (mostly). The only exception is when you deal with other OS' (not Windows). 
    Though the IP camera is obviously different. I think that would entirely depend on the camera and if you got software for it.
    You could use them, but as you said, "I don't think it would be a reliable option". I wouldn't do that honestly unless you really were trying to save money.
    Define "The unit". The CPU/Motherboard/RAM? The PSU? The HDDs? The whole thing? 
    If the answer is "the whole thing", then you would have to pay a data recovery firm to get your data off the HDDs since they failed. For reference, the place I work had to do this with a RAID 5 array with 7 drives in it. It cost $15,000 to get 1.8TB of data back. YMMV. 
    if the answer is "The CPU/Motherboard/RAM" or "The PSU", then you just replace those and rock-on because FreeNAS doesn't care as long as the drives are reconnected when it boots. Even if it's encrypted, as long as you have the password (Or encryption key), and FreeNAS can import the volume, you can access the data. 
    Be sure to keep a copy of either the password (or in FreeNAS' case, the encryption key) in multiple secure places (i.e. USB drive locked in a safe, encrypted and stored in the cloud with a simple password, tape backup, floppy backup, CD/DVD backup, etc).
    Again, I think you should be able to simply attach the printer to the network, go into it's settings and assign it an IP address, then connect each computer to it via IP or name. If it's even half-decent, it can do that. No need for a server.
    I think that's kind of lopsided personally. $500 on the rest of the hardware and $300-$400 on the HDD's seems excessive for only 4TB of data.
    Yes, overall, $1,200 sounds reasonable.
    For FreeNAS specifically, start reading the forums at forums.freenas.org. Specifically the "FreeNAS 4 noobs" section which is in the "Help and Support" sub-forum. 
    This then^.
    Buy the $900 bare system, then buy two 3TB WD Red drives. Total is $1,150 or so without tax.
    It comes prebuilt, and you have the FreeNAS forums (and me) to ask questions or read about other things. Feel free to PM me. I don't mind. I like talking about it and helping people.
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    SinghKing reacted to IdeaStormer in Small Office NAS Setup   
    You are not posting enough information as to what is required? The business needs 4TB of storage? (not clear to me) How many computers? How much data is flowing?
     
    No sense in building a NAS if you only have 4TB of storage to save, you're better off (money-wise) just having a RAID 1 in one of the computers, then a backup to tape or other different media. Does the business require backups? Is there any legal mumbo jumbo in regards to data being secure?
     
    Not sure how anyone is answering with out any details. List what it has now (assuming its working and fine?)
     
    No need to break the bank just because the business is moving, in fact all the more reason to not change anything till the dough rolls in, so to speak.
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    SinghKing reacted to wpirobotbuilder in Small Office NAS Setup   
    Never knew about that. SinghKing I recommend that if it's within your budget, ZFS-based solutions have much better data protection.
     
     
    They know what they're doing
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    SinghKing reacted to Vitalius in Small Office NAS Setup   
    Fourth? DANG!
    That entirely depends on your budget and time. I personally prefer to build my own machines because I have the time and it's fun. However, check my reply to @wpirobotbuilder in regards to this.
    I recommend WD Reds for a budget build.
    Just leave it shared on the network. For 8-10 computers, I wouldn't bother getting fancy with server stuff personally.
    Simple, using FreeNAS, have a good root password and have it encrypt everything on it. Not hard to set up honestly.
    Most NIC's/Switches are already Gigabit. Only old stuff is 10/100 and not 10/100/1000. I wouldn't worry about this at all. Built-in should be fine and a basic router/switch should be fine as well.
    That picture looks fine. Nothing fancy is needed I think. 
     

    Just saying. The FreeNAS Mini is a thing. Here's the datasheet. For $900 (no HDD's), it's pretty good. For $1,300 with 4x1TB WD Reds it's nice I think. Primarily because it comes pre-assembled.
     
    I love their phone number. 1 (855) grep 4 iX; I loled.
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    SinghKing reacted to alpenwasser in Small Office NAS Setup   
    Yeah, you don't have all features and performance is nowhere
    near representative of what you'll get on your own network
    and device, but it gives at least some idea of what the software
    looks like and some of its features.
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    SinghKing reacted to d33g33 in Small Office NAS Setup   
    Note the DSM that you can 'try out' in my experience is a piece if crap and in no way give an accurate experience of DSM, however it does show you what it looks like. For a small business environment like that the CPU might play a bigger part than at home so a decent dual core and 2gb+ ram might be a good idea. LACP would also be very beneficial so make sure your switch supports this. Netgear and HP offer decent gbit managed switches in the 200-300 mark.
    Synology can be set up to manage the domain and all the PC credentials if you wish or just have individual accounts to access the NAS services.
    For the network printer it's very easy. Just give it a static IP, if your not hosting the drivers on a print server you just add the printer in windows by IP and you will have to supply a driver. Synology unit may actually be able to act as a print server so it auto downloads the driver when adding it though I haven't looked at this.
    Sorry this is a dirty reply from my phone very late at night. If anything is unclear please say so or PM. Me and I will try and elaborate.
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    SinghKing reacted to alpenwasser in Small Office NAS Setup   
    Given that you say you're not very experienced, I'd say this depends on how
    much time you can and are willing to invest in learning. If the primary goal
    is getting it set up sooner rather than later and not having to invest a ton
    of time in figuring out the basic things, a prebuilt NAS is probably not a bad
    idea, as wpirobot has suggested.
    My brother works in IT and says he's had excellent experiences with Synology,
    and they have very good support according to what I've read from @d33g33 's
    experiences.
    They are not the cheapest units, and not the only alternatives though.
    You can try out a live demo of their software on this page, check if you like it.
    Having said that, building your own NAS is not all that difficult, it's
    basically just a PC. Regarding FreeNAS, I think @Vitalius has experience
    with that and might be able to provide some insight about how suited it
    might be, how easy it is to set up and all that.
     

    I've had good experiences with WD Red drives, but Seagate also
    make NAS drives, and the differences between the two probably
    isn't that large in practice.
    If you wanted to invest a bit more, you could also go with WD's
    SE drives, they have some additional measures to lessen the impact
    of vibrations, which can be of relevance if you have lots of
    drives in your NAS.
     

    Network printer is a good idea. How you integrate it into your
    network will in the end depend on your printer model, for example
    ours is connected as a simple network device (so you could just
    hook it up to the switch). I'm not very knowledgeable when it
    comes to printers though, somebody else might have more input.
     

    You'll need to set that up on the NAS itself, but any good NAS
    will offer you the ability to have specific user accounts to
    protect your data AFAIK.
     

    Gigabit networking will be OK, and components for that infrastructure
    are pretty affordable these days as long as you don't need managed
    switches and fancy stuff like that (for your setup, you don't, I'd say).
    Since you say that network load will be rather light (mostly office
    files), I wouldn't necessarily say you need an extra networking card
    for the NAS. If you want to combine networking ports on the NAS, you'll
    also need a switch which supports that AFAIK, and those can be rather
    costly.
     

      Looks good, I have a similar network plan at home.
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    SinghKing reacted to wpirobotbuilder in Small Office NAS Setup   
    Looks fine. If you don't want to deal with hardware issues then I recommend a prebuilt NAS from Synology, Netgear, QNAP etc. You can get some models with two Ethernet ports.
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    SinghKing reacted to looney in SSD died. So what do I do with it?   
    Try this before you burn/hang/bury/frame it:
    http://www.oczforum.com/forum/showthread.php?95348-Vertex-Agility-Solid2-Onyx-1-7-Destructive-updaters
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