NAS / RAID

Hey there, The ASUS ROG G701VIK-GB040R seems to suit most of my needs from the given specs. Before buying, I would like a confirmation, that the two installed SSD can be used with disabled RAID - as I need to have two OS installed. Some threats point out, that this could be a problem with the...

Short and sweet, my dad is in the market for a new laptop. However he does a lot of intensive tasks for work and needs some near to high end hardware. The key thing I am looking for is a laptop that can run m.2 nvme drives in raid 0 NOT a SATA interface!. budget is 1.5-2k usd Any help/brands...

Like the title says, let's say I get a Synology NAS housing (or other) and add in a WD Red, no RAID config, and one use case scenario is that we only use this in our household, while the other is so the rest of our family living on their own also can access the NAS from outside the local network...

So, I'm about to buy a new route, NAS, and laptop, and wanted to capture as many security practices from stage 1 as possible. Any thoughts/changes/recommendations are deeply needed! Router: Synology RT2600AC LOADED WITH: Synology Intrusion Prevention Client VPN(NORDVPN paid subscription)...

whether Samsung 960 evo 512GB +Toshiba Nvme Thnsn5256gpu7 + CAN in raids? whether the raid nvme CAN be done though DIFFERENT brand And Capacity

Help! I'm looking to buy a gaming laptop and I'm most interested in the Sager NP 8155 (see link below). My only problem is that since this is my first time, I have no clue what a lot of these things mean on the customization page. My main questions are about the different memory options and...

I'm using a portable version of spy hunter 4 software to combat spyware/malware. After scanning and detecting malware, a message pops up saying it can't can't remove spyware as my system utilizes Dynamic Disk Storage or RAID/SCSI based primary hard drive. How can get around this and remove the...

Hi, I have purchased an APC BE700G-UK UPS to protect my Netgear ReadyNAS 104 and I am bit confused on the instructions provided concerning the powerchute software. Does powerchute control the UPS via the UPS Ethernet network port, or should the UPS be connected via the USB/data cable included...

I currently have an old 5.1 Sony system in my home, the amplifier of which is likely to expire soon, but the speakers and the sub-woofer work just fine ( I tested by hooking them up to other sources). After that, I plan on upgrading. I have decided to buy a Yamaha A/V receiver, with 9.2 at the...

Hello Everyone I do not have a desktop but have two laptops in the house. I also have an Apple TV 2 which I used to have connected to my desktop, before the desktop died and we purchased 2 laptops. I'm going to setup a NAS and I want to know if there is any way to stream directly from a NAS...

I want to use raid 1 to save a whole bunch of old photos and videos from numerous family vacations and such. I was wondering if i bought an 8TB harddrive and a 2TB one could i make a 2TB partition on the one harddrive and raid 1 the partition and other harddrive and still be able to use the...

I have a SSD as my system drive with Win10 and 3x hard drives in raid where I have my games installed. I just bought a 2Tb Hard drive and want to transfer my games onto the new drive. Because the system drive will remain the same, can I just copy the contents of the raid drives to the new...

I have a VAIO VPCZ11NGX/X that contains three SSD's configured in RAID 0. One of the drives has failed. Can it be replaced? With what? And, where can I get a replacement? I need to replace one of the SSD's in my Sony VAIO VPCZ11NGX/X, It has 3 128GB SSD's configured in RAID0. They are...

I'm looking into building a good home server/htpc/nas. A lot of the posts I see are stressing cheap, but I am taking a different approach with an eye to expected future needs. I'd rather buy a better board/cpu than get more RAM because it is Soooooooo much easier to add more ram than.....you...

I am pretty sure someone paid to have my system hacked for the info it contained. I am willing to reinstall windows, but is it possible even after doing this, there is still somewhere for the virus to hide? Also. I have two internal drives in raid (1 TB) in raid 0, but backed up. How do i...

I recently bought a MSI GT72VR yesterday to find out it doesnt have 120hz display like it advertises. I was wondering if I should head back to frys to swap it for a GT80 cause of the raid and the mechanical keyboard. I would honestly keep my 1070 but the monitor isn't what was advertised.

quick simple question can normal laptop HDD's work in server's with a raid card? or do they need be server grade HDD's my server is a Sun Fire X4150 unsure of the raid card model but the make is Sun same as the server

I have a pretty big PC next to me. It's not built yet but it's going to be a NAS/Backup build for the entire family (but mostly me) to use but I don't really have the space nor the want to buy another keyboard and monitor especially for it. Ideally I'd like to simply put a small, maybe 13"...

Hello All, I would like to know if it is at all possible to have a few HDDs in Raid outside of my case. So far the most elegant solution I can come up with would be a NAS device. From what I gather, NAS devices are more for back up and redundancy rather than "External Storage." Basically, I was...

Hello and thank you for your time. I have an ASUS ROG G752V laptop. I took out the HDD and replaced it with a SSD (Samsung 850 Pro) Running Windwos 10. So only have 1 SSD instaled. I was looking around in Samsung magician and noticed AHCI mode says "deactivated (IDE or RAID)" and SATA...