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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
Funny I have never owned a NAS... always thought it might be a bit over kill in itself. Maybe its something I should give some thought too.
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I like them because of the shared storage (so I can put media on there for all my devices to access, or keep business related stuff there so my wife and I don't have to email stuff back and forth), and because of the low power usage compared to having those disks in my PC. Not going to be a big advantage for everyone of course, depends on specific needs.
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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
What makes you say that? I was hoping/thinking it would be quite safe.
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Mirroring protects you from losing a drive, but there are many other ways to lose data. File system corruption, accidentally deleting/formatting/etc... And mirroring won't protect you against those, it'll just mirror the problem.
So combine that with a true backup method, there's a few threads on online backup solutions, my NAS automatically talks to Amazon S3 so I just use that to backup my documents and business stuff and pictures, and most of my media I don't care about backing up, but if I did I'd probably do a removable hard drive or something like that.
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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
The blur-ray player/burner also does CD's and DVD's and is only $79.99, so I'll probably get it just so I have it in case I need it... I may not use it either.
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That's true.
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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
Read up on the 520 last night and ya it seems like a decent drive... until I read you post praising the Plextor I figured I'd just go with the 520 to keep all components in house at memory express. well.. shoot, lol.
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Heh yeah I've had that struggle before. The immediate gratification desire makes it even more complex
You can't go wrong with the Intel and you would probably only ever be able to tell the difference in artificial benchmarks. I'm running a drive with almost the same guts as the Intel and I'm very happy with it.
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Originally Posted by MaDMaN_26
I actually did read a post about a guy who had them in SLI on the board I mentioned. So I should be good.... I'll talk to memory express about an after market solution to replace the existing fan... good tip (Zamler and you)
Thanks for the feedback!
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No problem. XbitLabs has good reviews on CPU coolers, check out their recent stuff to find out what's the best or what's a good balance between cost and performance.