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My father is a genious

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  • D DaveX86

    Yeah, the box I leave running 24/7 has all black drives in it too...I do allow them to spin down which saves a lot of wear but it's a pain in the butt waiting for them to spin up all the time.

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    Saves lot of heat too - my NAS does that and it's fan hardly ever moves. And heat is a killer for electronics as well as bearings - lowers the MTBF from my experience.

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      Saves lot of heat too - my NAS does that and it's fan hardly ever moves. And heat is a killer for electronics as well as bearings - lowers the MTBF from my experience.

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      Very true...looking forward to trying those supposed 10TB SSD drives that Intel has been bragging about :)

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      • D DaveX86

        Very true...looking forward to trying those supposed 10TB SSD drives that Intel has been bragging about :)

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        Now I'd like four of those in a NAS, set up for RAID5! But I'd hate the mortgage I'd probably need to get one... :omg:

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        • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

          Now I'd like four of those in a NAS, set up for RAID5! But I'd hate the mortgage I'd probably need to get one... :omg:

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          That's for sure! ...prices on SSD's are definitely coming down some, though...was thinking of trying one for my C: drive by imaging the existing stuff off my old one...don't know if that would work or not though. I'm not quite ready to replace this box yet, but it would be nice to give it a boost.

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          • D DaveX86

            That's for sure! ...prices on SSD's are definitely coming down some, though...was thinking of trying one for my C: drive by imaging the existing stuff off my old one...don't know if that would work or not though. I'm not quite ready to replace this box yet, but it would be nice to give it a boost.

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            I know what you mean - my C is 1TB, so I'd need that size to mirror it - currently it's just over £300 for 1TB (Dabs[^]) and that's $550 Canadian. Probably more than I want to spend upgrading this system - I'll probably want a faster processor, more ram, and Win10 as well when I update next.

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            • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

              I know what you mean - my C is 1TB, so I'd need that size to mirror it - currently it's just over £300 for 1TB (Dabs[^]) and that's $550 Canadian. Probably more than I want to spend upgrading this system - I'll probably want a faster processor, more ram, and Win10 as well when I update next.

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              It's on sale at Newegg for $474 CDN[^]! :) I think I'll wait till it gets a bit cheaper...

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              • P PIEBALDconsult

                :omg: There are times I'm glad my father uses a Mac. Did you see the "Dumb Things People Do?" Loung thread the other day?

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                In his defense, this old guy wants to know if your father can spell "genius"? :laugh:

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                • K kmoorevs

                  Vasily Tserekh wrote:

                  Amazing the way old people think...

                  I'll never forget trying to trying to teach my father-in-law how to 'browse' the internet. Scrolling was an issue... "why do I click the down arrow to make the page go up?" In general, the laptop was just too difficult for him...so we got him an iPad which he did much better on.

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                  He has a point about the scrolling.

                  What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? --- The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.

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                  • V Vasily Tserekh

                    The other day my father was trying to copy 12 GB from the flash to the PC. But then he had a wonderful idea. He somehow knows the recycle bin folder was in the hard drive. He deleted the files because he thought the files will be on the recycle bin on C: and then he will click restore and they will be restored on the hard drive. And all the files will be copied on the PC in seconds. I laughed so hard I almost had asthma Amazing the way old people think...

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                    My friend cannot play Battlefield cause his PC only has 2gigs of Ram, he asked me where to download more Ram ...

                    In code we trust !

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                    • B BiggerDon

                      In his defense, this old guy wants to know if your father can spell "genius"? :laugh:

                      cat fud heer

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                      sorry its hard to be trilingual

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