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http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/lenovo/yoga-laptop-series/yoga-laptop-13/#tab-features okay so here is the product page for the laptop I am using. The question is: Can I attach a Dell U2715H and run it at 1440p 60Hz?

Right, so on the specs for my laptop it just says 'HDMI' how do I know whether this is the correct version of HDMI for 1440p60?

So, with HDMI ports are they all the same and it's the cable that varies version to version?

I know I can get a picture to display. I was wondering if it is possible to get a 1440p picture to display. The native res of the laptop screen is 1600x900 but it can push 1920x1080 just fine over HDMI. I know 1440p is a different beast with different standards so the question is can I push 1440p at 60Hz from my HDMI port, I don't know what version of HDMI it is.

It works fine connecting to a 1080p TV. I know there are different standards for HDMI and I was wondering if these would present an issue to me and I can't find the answer online.

I know, I wouldn't dream of gaming on it. My rig is out of action until my sentry arrives and we get some AM4 mITX boards though.

why not?

I have a Lenovo Yoga 13 (the original one from 2012) it has HDMI out, will it support 1440p 60Hz external display?

Oh okay, yeah, I don't plan on investing in 10gigabit in the near future and could save the money from the SSD until I do. Your explanation made sense, my initial comment was that 5 drives in a RAID5 gives me the same amount of storage as 6 drives in a RAID50 (I think) and my understanding was that it would be okay if two drives fail ( a benefit ) but only if the two drives were in different RAID5s so with 6 drives and 2 for pairty would it not have made more sense to run RAID6?I think I'm going to go with unRAID because it seems slightly more flexible. Can freeNAS be installed to a USB drive?

I was of the understanding that RAID5 was very slow to write to and hoping that the SSD cache would help make that faster. The use case is just for mass storage and streaming media, do you think the system could do with a beefier processor?

My case and motherboard wouldn't cater for 7 drives Also, if I'm not mistaken would I not lose two drives for parity in that RAID setup but only have one drive's worth of redundancy?

The case would be a RAID 5 with three drives in and later adding two additional drives, unfortunately I wouldn't be able to copy it anywhere else as this NAS would constitute my largest storage volume.

Is it possible to partition a drive to have it act as both the boot drive and as SSD cache in unRAID?

So, you'd recommend unRAID over freeNAS? I'm completely new to all this so any information is helpful!

Not significantly better, maybe a bigger air cooler though? It really depends on how much you care about overclocking though, as it is it'll game well and I don't think your schoolwork will stress it too much either If you don't care about overclocking, save some money and buy a locked CPU and a cheaper motherboard!