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A good choice sir, a good choice.

Just try not to drink it too quickly ya' hear?!?

 

A couple of new 2Tb drives to upgrade my storage server and a miniHDMI to normal HDMI adapter so I can plug my PC into the plasma telly.

Oh and a new front number plate after some idiot put a crack in it (not me!).

 

The Sandman Omnibus Vol. 1+2

Read only through the first half so far but this is one of the best comics I have read so far.

 

New Exhaust.

 

New CO2 tube for the Laser, Hot weather killed the current one today

It's my own fault for setting it off on a job, then having my dinner and forgetting to check the water temps

 

upgrades

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upload pi
upload picc

 

all of the 980's!

 

A NAS enclosure. I've tried and failed to setup my own NAS system using my Core i7 mATX PC but I just can't get the thing to run properly. It doesn't need to be anything fancy and if I can't get it to work right I've got 14 days to send it back.

I have failed at FreeNAS.

I am sort of breaking my own rules by cheap, I know I'm going to end up buying twice !

 

you need at least 1GB of ram for each TB of NAS storage for it to run properly so im told. but im not an expert in servers.

 

Bagged this from speed on the market place. cant wait for it to get here tomorrow.
Will go very nicely with my new hex xeon!

 

Car Jack tomorrow is in order then to paint the brake calipers blue

 

I have used Freenas a bunch, but yea you want at least 1gb of ram, I have seen reasoning where you want at least 8gb of ECC ram then on top of that you want the 1gb of ram per TB, I will say I just have 8gb in mine and its fine, not had an issue.

And with buying twice i ended up doing that, as my Hp micro has done all it can for me so I need an upgrade the N50L will be transferred into purely a backup array for the new Rack

 

IIIRC this is only when you're using the ZFS filesystem (even then you could use less, but it's "not recommended", because of a very small chance you could lose all your data - this is also the reason to use ECC ram). With UFS you can do with less.


Setting up FreeNAS, IPMI and a few jails with applications was a huge PITA for me too, but the good thing is, once you get it up and running (and begin to understand how/why everything works) it's pretty low-maintenance. It's a learning experience.

 

Try not to fall of your seats with excitement, but I bought this yesterday....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00QCAUSB8?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

I just hope the weather is nice next saturday

 

Question: did you deliberately buy two with the stock cooler and one with an aftermarket?

 

Bought a Helios-44-2 from eBay (£9.99) so I could grab the front element from it to replace the one on my rarer Helios-44 13 aperture blade model which has seen better days. The thing is the 'new' Helios I just bought looks absolutely immaculate. I'm going to feel bad stripping it down for parts.

 

I'm a massive Neil Gaiman fan. I've got all of the sandman volumes and I think nearly all of his novels. American Gods is one of my particular favourites, it's just so witty.

 

I thought the same but those cards are the old ones lol

 

And to think all that GPU power will one day be in just one card,

 

When the 980's first came out I could only get three superclockeds in that mix if I wanted three cards.

This time I got all the TI in acx coolers, but I will he fitting waterblocks anyway

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