Not an every day problem

[DJMasHup007]

Hello guys!

I have a really strange problem. I live at 2 places at the same time, basicly i spend one week at house A and then spend another week at house B. My plan is to build to pcs that are exactly the same and then buy an external HDD enclosure that supports at least a 3.5 and a 2.5 hdds,( can be two 3.5) so I can buy 2 of them and then i can carry my OS ssd and mass storage drive from A to B so i can travel with my data. The problem is that most external drive enclosures arent fast enough to handle a full speed SSD and an HDD through a single usb3 port.(Samsung 850 evo and a seagate barracuda) Are there any sollutions with usb type c? or usb 3.1? That can support the full speed of each drive. Thanks for all the answers and have a nice day!

PS: i know these full speed bays exsist but in a DVD bay slot thingy but there are not too many cases that have a 5.25 dvd bay slot, I know there are some but the case i am looking forward to buy doesnt have it. (NZXT S340).

[UMxMarky94]

11 minutes ago, DJMasHup007 said:

Hello guys!

I have a really strange problem. I live at 2 places at the same time, basicly i spend one week at house A and then spend another week at house B. My plan is to build to pcs that are exactly the same and then buy an external HDD enclosure that supports at least a 3.5 and a 2.5 hdds,( can be two 3.5) so I can buy 2 of them and then i can carry my OS ssd and mass storage drive from A to B so i can travel with my data. The problem is that most external drive enclosures arent fast enough to handle a full speed SSD and an HDD through a single usb3 port.(Samsung 850 evo and a seagate barracuda) Are there any sollutions with usb type c? or usb 3.1? That can support the full speed of each drive. Thanks for all the answers and have a nice day!

PS: i know these full speed bays exsist but in a DVD bay slot thingy but there are not too many cases that have a 5.25 dvd bay slot, I know there are some but the case i am looking forward to buy doesnt have it. (NZXT S340).

any reason why you NEED 2 pc ? Are your own private machines ? why not either A, use a monster laptop (really they should be remained as having one of these beast on your lap sounds like torture) or

B, build a itx pc and carry that ?

 

 

[grimreeper132]

I would suggest for ease getting two 500GB SSDs for boot drives and programmes on both PCs and then transport all your files on. And then using another PC, doesn't need to be a good one specs wise, but good storage wise, and something like owcloud set up a storage server which you can access from both PCs, meaning that all your files that need transferring get saved onto that, making it easy to transfer them.

 

20 minutes ago, UMxMarky94 said:

-SNIP-

but as Marky said, why do you need two, or in the case of my solution 3, just get a good laptop which you can transfer about or an itx PC?

[DJMasHup007]

26 minutes ago, UMxMarky94 said:

any reason why you NEED 2 pc ? Are your own private machines ? why not either A, use a monster laptop (really they should be remained as having one of these beast on your lap sounds like torture) or

B, build a itx pc and carry that ?

 

 

A laptops have much worse price to performace ratio and laptops lose much more worth than pc hardware overtime

B already having that and it is really bad, bad thermals and allways plugin in and out peripherals and carring them two

[DJMasHup007]

8 minutes ago, grimreeper132 said:

I would suggest for ease getting two 500GB SSDs for boot drives and programmes on both PCs and then transport all your files on. And then using another PC, doesn't need to be a good one specs wise, but good storage wise, and something like owcloud set up a storage server which you can access from both PCs, meaning that all your files that need transferring get saved onto that, making it easy to transfer them.

 

but as Marky said, why do you need two, or in the case of my solution 3, just get a good laptop which you can transfer about or an itx PC?

What if the internet connection is down? And i assume that the cloud storage might not be fast, like imagine loading gta V from that.

[UMxMarky94]

1 minute ago, DJMasHup007 said:

A laptops have much worse price to performace ratio and laptops lose much more worth than pc hardware overtime

B already having that and it is really bad, bad thermals and allways plugin in and out peripherals and carring them two

what is bad thermals ? what are the temps ?
also really the best method it's to have one machine. 

 

[grimreeper132]

Just now, DJMasHup007 said:

What if the internet connection is down? And i assume that the cloud storage might not be fast, like imagine loading gta V from that.

you'd games like GTA V on the 500GB SSD, which is in each system, and how often does the internet go down for you? and if it does hope that your where the server is so you can connect to it through a LAN connection.

[grimreeper132]

4 minutes ago, UMxMarky94 said:

what is bad thermals ? what are the temps ?
also really the best method it's to have one machine. 

 

probably the cheapest solution, but if he's got the cash it might not be the best. the thing is though it is the most practical and probably easiest solution to have. temp of an ITX can be high, if inadequate cooling is used, but that's the case about all computers. the laptop can be a bit warm yes, and they do lose value to a certain degree, yes, but the current gen, due to you being able to get desktop grade, pretty much, graphics etc. in them that might not happen this time, that and if you get a good enough laptop, e.g. one of the beasts with a quad core and a 1080 that will last you quite a while, and by that point if you got the desktop equivalent the difference might be £100-£200 or more which is quite a bit, but at the same time it is possible to deal with that due to the more portability of the laptop, which is what the OP seams to need

[UMxMarky94]

@grimreeper132 hmm how about a smaller 13in laptop which connects to a thunderbolt hub to screen mouse etc. with a NAS at both ends which sync to each other.

 

other then that a itx build or laptop would be the sweet spot with  practicality and reliability 

 

[grimreeper132]

Just now, UMxMarky94 said:

@grimreeper132 hmm how about a smaller 13in laptop which connects to a thunderbolt hub to screen mouse etc. with a NAS at both ends which sync to each other.

 

other then that a itx build or laptop would be the sweet spot with  practicality and reliability 

 

aye that is possible, it'd be a bitch to set up the NASs probably but once they are the NASs won't need to be touched except for file transfers, that and the laptop in question would need to be a gaming one, so probably one with a 1050/1060 one, which far as I know, are slightly bigger than 13", but that being said I could be wrong. the two NASs will supply offsite back up for each other in case the worse happens like a house fire and/or internet cuts out, and yea it would be very practical, and reliable. That sounds like the best solution for this situation probably.

 

the other option is to build two systems for each house, with a 30GB boot drive for windows on both, and then using a VM off of them run a NAS and a again sync across the two systems, which would work, and keep him happy, but will be a lot more expensive than the laptop solution and doesn't supply the option of taking the laptop to starbucks or something like that in order to do work there.