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6 Responses to “storage & graphics problems solved”

1. barbwire Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 19:45

   Looks more like a band-aid than a solution to me …

2. LD Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 19:48

   🙂 You may be right. Particularly on the graphics card, although I suspect you are referring to the NAS.
   The disks in it are upgradable, so I’m ‘hoping’ as the price of disk drops, i just keep swapping out disks. (to a point)
   How much data have you got in storage now? petabytes?

3. barbwire Says:
   December 30th, 2009 at 02:36

   My main nas has 4 x 1.5 TB in raid 5 (hot swappable) so I get around 4120 GB (and have a whopping 350 GB free at the moment). I have a (very old) single disk lacie nas that is so slow that I doubt i’d ever get anything from them again. i’m also very unlikely to ever get a non-nvidia gfx card too but that’s mainly based on the quality of linux drivers for ati. enjoy the toys anyway!

4. LD Says:
   December 30th, 2009 at 15:23

   You were right. The Lacie sucked, bigtime. I was getting 120kbps transfer rate. (yes, that is not a typo) Connecting it to gigabit helped, but it still wouldnt do more than 300kbps. In short, it was a dog.
   The admin gui was useless, difficult to use and gave very little control over the box. And to top it off, it was noiser than my scooter.

   I took it back, and swapped it for the Netgear, then bought a second HD to RAID-1 it. Much, much better. You can see they thought about the design.
   It actually works, and the transfer rates are normal.
   It is smaller too!

   Much happer.

5. barbwire Says:
   December 31st, 2009 at 02:48

   Cool – now we just have to get you off ati 😉

6. LD Says:
   December 31st, 2009 at 11:57

   Well, I hve an NVIDIA gfx card, but when my PC blew up and I got a new system, I didnt check the size of the card, and it doesnt fit!
   So I had to buy something, and that was all Harris had in stock. It will do for now. It has improved my “Windows Experience” by 2x 🙂

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