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First time here in this forum. I have a total of 3 external USB hard disks (2-4 TB each) lying around. I don't use them often because most of my and my family's media consumption is done online and on their phones and such... Instead of just stashing the HDDs in a drawer somewhere, I figured setting up a home NAS with them would be a good idea. I already have a gigabit switch with ethernet wired to all the rooms in the house and wifi too. Devices that need to access it are 2 laptops, 1 gaming PC/HT-PC in living room, multiple phones and tablets. So I've been researching and found this refurbished mini-PC (amazon link) (4th gen i5, 8gb ram, 256gb SSD, gigabit ethernet, 3 usb-2 ports and 2 usb-3 ports) and I'm planning to buy it. It's got enough usb ports and gigabit ethernet which should be okay for my use case. I've already got an old cheap monitor and keyboard-mouse. I've got a UPS backup for my entire house and plan to leave it on 24/7. I also would prefer not to keep them connected to the living room PC as I don't always keep it on. I think I can trust the mini-PC. It has good reviews and all the important data on my drives are backed up to multiple cloud storage services and I absolutely do follow good data backup practices. I just don't want these drives to just gather dust in the drawer. So my question is - Is this a feasible idea? Is there anything really obvious I'm missing with this setup. Any problems that I need to be aware of when using external drives? Any input or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks... Budget (including currency): Upto 200 USD in local currency - 15000 INR. I would prefer to manage with above suggested/already available hardware. Country: India Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Home network attached storage for non-critical files. Non-critical data backups.
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Hi Everyone, what are your experiences with external storages in Sonoma? Some of us are having serious issues, lost volumes, unmontable drives, data loss. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255188289?sortBy=best https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-do-i-allow-access-to-removable-volumes.2376842/ My very expensive Lacie 6big got corrupted, and the replacement is also acting up. Seagate and Apple are blaming each other, they made me to reformat my boot drive and completely reinstall MacOS, which did not solved the issue.
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Hi all, At university, I have access to a PC with a GPU. I am allowed to use at as long as I dont interface with the storage on that PC or install anything. I want to use it for gaming. I was thinking if it was possible to use an external drive to boot an OS and use the installed GPU and peripherals for gaming. For context the PC has a RTX3080 installed. For gaming I will be using Steam and EPIC. If externally booting is an option what are the things that I should keep in mind before trying that since that PC has a lot of important data regarding research projects.
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I'm still one of the stubborn people who still buys CD albums and put them in my MacBook Pro (Mid-2012). My MBP is getting to slow and i'm planning on putting my new albums on my Asus Laptop which uses windows 11 and was wondering if this is external CD drive from Asus is good. Just mainly ripping music albums to the windows media player -
hi i bought an xbox series s for my sister and i want to buy external hdd for her to store few more fun game for her i have a list of those hdd but i dont know which one work good with series s. can any one hlping me to choosing right one? 1.Toshiba CANVIO READY 2.Toshiba CANVIO BASICS 3.Adata HD710 PRO 4.Silicon Power Armor A85B 5.Adata HD770G 6.Apacer AC732 7.Toshiba Canvio Advance New 8.Adata HD330 9.Apacer AC236 10.Apacer AC633 11.Apacer AC533 all of those available at our local store for good price and also all comes in 1TB of storage. thank you
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Budget (including currency): 130$ Country: India Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: File Backup I am planning to purchase an external drive for data backup. I currently use a 1.5TB seagate expansion HDD , but the clicking and grinding noises with random screeches while connecting it got me concerned . The maximum sequential speed of the HDD has also dropped to 70mbps from 130mbps . I think I can safely assume that the data in the HDD is at risk and I should make sure its safe So here is my confusion , whether should I go for an external SSD or an external HDD.The current HDD is only 5 years old and started giving up even though it was not used much.Would it be a bright idea if I got an SSD , just to store stuff or should I stick with an HDD I'll be joining college shortly and will be using the SSD/HDD till I complete my PG for storing stuff (around 8-10 years) Can an external SSD store data safer than an external HDD? (Does it last longer?) Is it worth the extra money I am paying? I really don't mind the speed of the SSD Or HDD , I just want it to store stuff and last me for a decade probably without having to worry about it dying
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Can I leave my external hard drive plugged in or will it cause problems? If I turn my pc off while it's plugged in wouldn't it cause issues or failure? It's like I'm not unplugging it safely with software.
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Hey everyone! I've got a homelab with 4 DC's and a handful of Servers and VM's. 3 of 4 are 2016 or 2019, but I have one legacy 2008R2 that I use. I'd prefer not to have it open to the internet since it's EOL and not receiving any updates. I prefer 2008R2 and want to keep one until Microsoft completely kills it off (I've got Windows 7 VM's in the same boat). I've gone the easy route of setting a GPO in AD called "Legacy Windows 7 or Older" to set Domain Firewall rules to block Incoming and Outgoing port 80 packets. I'd turn off Windows Firewall to manually grab definition updates and Chrome updates for my internal uses. Is there a better way to have traffic shaping setup? I'd like to have ALL programs blocked unless they are MSE or Immunity. I'm also open to other Windows Server free Antivirus. Hopefully that makes sense... Thank you! -
So basically, my laptop is more powerful than my pc. I still want to use my pc setup, monitor, peripherals, etc. But my computer is not good at hq graphics. Is there a software or something I can use to hook up my laptop to act as a powerhouse/ external gpu for my computer? -
Going from playing on the built in display (60hz 1ms IPS) to an external monitor for the 4th time I have again noticed a decrease in input latency, in both gaming and regular tasks. And this happened on both "gaming" monitors (75/144hz 1ms) and plain old 60hz 5ms ones. The weird part is my laptop's HDMI is not connected directly to the dedicated GPU but instead goes through the iGPU as well (the 1050 is listed as a render only instead of full display device) and so I'm not bypassing anything and there doesn't seem to be any other performance difference. My questions are: Has anyone had this happen to them? What causes input delay on the built in display and can anything be done to fix it?
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I have an external keyboard which does not have any shortcut key to change the screen brightness. On my built-in keyboard, the mapping is Fn+F5/F6, but I barely ever use my built-in keyboard. The external keyboard does have Fn key, and doesn't do anything when pressing this combination. I want to create a custom combo to use on the external keyboard, like fn+f5/f6 or maybe fn+uparrow/downarrow. Any help/article on how I can do this appreciated!
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Can't seem to find any information about this issue I'm having so I figures I could try here. I do video editing on the daily and like to move back and forth between my desktop and G15 so I have a Sandisk external ssd I use to go back and forth. On my desktop I connect via the USB-C port and have zero issues. Performance is almost on par as if with an internal ssd. But when I move to my G15 performance is the same except when first "accessing" the drive. It's most noticeable in Premiere Pro where whenever I leave the program to browse the internet or something and come back to Premiere. When I switch back to premiere I always have to wait 10-15 seconds for it to 'access' the drive. After that 10-15 second wait it works perfect until I leave premiere and come back. Another example I have is when I copy something over to the drive without using it for awhile, the progress bar opens, sit's at 0% for 10-15 seconds, then transfers the file at the expected speeds. For awhile I thought it may be the drive itself, but on my desktop pc it work flawlessly. I can't think of anything other than some hidden power setting that I haven't found yet. A few things I've tried: -Uninstalling the USB drivers and reinstalling -Disabling "allow windows to turn off this device when not in use" via device manager -Disabling "turn off usb when not in use" in advanced power management -Disabled power saving in "USB settings" -Enabling windows to cache buffer on the drive -Tried via usb A ports -Tried different cable -Same issue with different Samsung external ssd Any help would be amazing!
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So cases dont have any internal drive bays any more and id like to be able to use my dvd or bluray drive with my pc. I have done the cursory google search for external drive enclosures and I dont see things that support more than one drive.
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Hello everyone, I wanted to post this here for whoever may run across it. I have confirmed an issue with Monterey 12.0-12.1 where external drives (flash drives, external drives, ssds, etc.) are slow to mount, format or unmount. This issue is solved in Monterey 12.2. If you have issues, please upgrade to the latest version of Monetrey. ~ Pickles von Brine -
I received my SSD last Friday from amazon, and have had this stupid annoying issue ever since. I get an error code 38 on the drive (check screen shot) and have to hard restart my computer to get it to reconnect. Running a Surface Book 2, the majority of the time the drive is connected to my surface dock. I never had this problem before on any of my other external drives and I was wondering if there is a way to resolve this before I return the drive. I don't know anywhere else to go to troubleshoot this :(
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This is concerning the external USB expanded storage of the PlayStation 5 not the recently supported internal M.2 expanded storage as well as external HDD/SSD tech and limitations. By reading the PlayStation support page it appears that the USB ports max throughput is a single lane at 10 Gbit/s (3.1 aka 3.1 gen 2 connection aka 3.2 gen 2 x 1, USB forum rally f'd up 3.0's naming). My question are most external drives just standard 2.5" or 3.5" hdds or ssds with an enclosure using SATA 3 which has a max throughput of 6 Gbit/s or are they able to utilize the full bandwidth? Also, if there is PS5 gamers that use a 5 Gbit/s (3.0 aka 3.1 gen 1 aka 3.2 gen 1 x 1) how is the experience of playing PS4 games off it? If the experience is fine and most external drives have bottlenecks I'll probably just buy an enclosure and use a commodity SATA drive.
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Please help a guy out, I'm looking for suggestions! I'm about to buy a Macbook Pro 14". I edit video in Resolve, Premiere and After Effects. I usually don't store files locally. I like to have one "work drive" on which i put my projects, and one "backup drive". I have a limited budget, so I was thinking of buying: one external fast drive (SSD?), 2 to 4 TB one storage disk (HDD?) 4TB or more, for backup I've pretty much been reading about every possible brand, whether it's LaCie, Seagate, WD... Some say one brand sucks, others say the opposite. I'm looking for suggestions from people with a similar workflow.. Or at least from people with better knowledge than mine! Thanks in advance. -
Hey all, I just purchased a DAS, (QNAP TR-004). It's loaded with 4 drives in RAID 5. The DAS will turn on when the PC is turned on, and go into standby when the PC is turned off. It's connected via USB. Windows boots off a seperate, internal M.2, not part of the DAS or RAID setup. My problem is that the PC is waiting for the drives to startup in the DAS before it moves on from the boot screen and into Windows. Question: Is it possible to have the DAS turn on as usual but not have the PC wait for the drives to spin up and turn on before moving on to booting windows? Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Master (rev 1.0) Windows 11 Any help or better understanding of what I could do would be much appreciated! Thank you!
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I am trying to add an external video card to my Windows 10 laptop to drive a larger monitor with greater resolution than that that is integrated with the laptop. I've followed the instructions in one of Linus's videos, but it's still not working for me. Can anyone help? Following is exactly what I did. I opened up the laptop, and found the M.2 socket. It was occupied by the laptop's WiFi antennae. So, I removed the antenna, and replaced it with an outboard, USB-attached antennae. The new antennae works fine. My WiFi connection is even better than it had been. I then plugged an M.2-to-USB adapter into the now-free M.2 socket. I then connected that to my external video card -- an admittedly legacy AMD Radeon HD 5450 -- using a USB cable, and I connected that card to my outboard monitor using an HDMI cable. I installed the appropriate drivers for the video card. They are visible in Device Manager. I have a power supply driving the card and the M.2-to-USB adapter. Both bear LED indicators, and those are lit, so they are definitely getting power. Unfortunately, this configuration results in no response whatsoever from the monitor. Seems like I'm missing something. Any help?
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I was looking for a 240GB portable ssd & I've found 4 that fits into my budget. 01. Netac NT01Z - 250GB 02. PNY Elite - 240GB 03. Adata SD600Q - 240GB 04. Transcend ESD230C - 240GB Can anyone tell me which one is better.
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Hello I wanted to do a daily incremmental backup of files that are on a specific folder, to an external storage. The overall size of the entire folder ts around 40GB and its composed of small, but very important Documents, Pictures and PDF's. I really have fear of crypt and other malicius viruses that will make my file illegible, cripted or damaged, even after copying them to an external storage, so I wanted to take every precaution of this world before copying them into the external storage. 1) Which avaiable setup will make the "incremental backup process" 100% secure that I will not overwrite the good files on my external SD Card, with infected by virus files coming from the Laptop Folder, and so to lose everything? 2) There is any copy and paste suite for backups other than explorer.exe that maybe will make the PC to scan before copying, or to scan for each files? 3) What's your advice? -
Hello folks! I'm in need of a external/ portable DAC/AMP for my headset so any recommendation is welcomed. The reason is that I'm starting to hear random popping noise (low in the background not very audible) when my GPU under load especially during ALT + TAB between heavy GPU usage applications to desktop/ browser and my friends also complained about static noise (randomly not all the time) from my microphone. As the Game One is a headset so I would like to buy a DAC/AMP that have microphone port. Currently I'm looking at the Creative G5/G6 but they are kinda "expensive" in my place -
Hey I'm currently looking to buy an External M.2 Slot to reuse my old ss. But there is a slight problem, I don't really know what to lookout for (in terms of specs or quality). If you know pros and cons, or if it doesn't really matter wich one I buy feel free to tell me. Thx. -Veo
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Hello guy ! Just bought a new WD My Passport but i find it awfull in this blue ... I want to paint it in this color or a similar one. How should i procede ? Should i sand it like a plastic model and then paint or paint directly onto the blue layer ? Does the type of paint I use matter ? Thanks and have a nice day ^^ !
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Hello, I was wondering, since at least 1 of the employees I provide tech support to now has a new Lenovo laptop with an M.2 NVMe SSD in it, I have realized that I have no way of interfacing with a drive like that when its removed from the laptop. Getting a M.2 NVMe/SATA enclosure is easy enough, just order one on Amazon. But what I was wondering is if there's an enclosure that's similar to a HDD Toaster, but for M.2 drives. I don't really see myself needing to clone NVMe drives, especially since I've moved all the employees I manage over to Microsoft 365. I also don't see myself doing that because all the current machines the other employees have are all using standard 2.5" drives.... but it would be nice to be able to clone M.2 drives. If there isn't something like what I'm describing, I suppose 2 individual enclosures would do the job. I think you get can get a nice one for like $25.
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