shud have had fiber installed to make your house future proof. but i spose you can do ethernet urself. dont know the cost of fiber.
shud have had fiber installed to make your house future proof. but i spose you can do ethernet urself. dont know the cost of fiber.
Fiber was an option, but I dont need quite THAT much throughput.. the only real time you need Fiber is if your connecting between switches in a large environment, which isnt very suitable for a home base application. Not to mention, it costs about $1500 for a fiber NIC card to a computer, which definatly isnt advisable ;)
u using a single switch with gb ethernet or a router aswell. a simple fast ethernet would do for home and its alot cheaper than gb ethernet. also pic cat6 cable instead of cat5e.
edit: u adding network storage instead of internal/external?
All I gotta say is..I wish I had enough money to buy all these things =(
SardaukarOriginally Posted by Kyle
A hard working geek :-)
Get yourself an HDTV Tuner for your computer and start recording HDTV on it. You'll run out in no time. ;)
At about 5gb per hour you don't get to store much stuff there. =P
200 hours worth of stuff on a 1tb drive.
I'm with you there. I got about 200 gb of storage on my storage drive. I would have more but I've been limiting myself on what to keep and what to trash.
And with my main OS. I easily hit 100gb with just programs alone. Damn games are getting bigger and bigger. Look at FSX, it's 15gb when installed!
Yeah fiber is really over kill for home networks. Especially when the NICs costs so much.
Sure the actual fiber cables is cheaper then copper ones but when you factor in the cost of special NICs and cutting equipment it makes no since to have.
Though having a fiber connection running to your house for internet access is a good idea as it's the same cost of cable and much faster. :icon6:
Shame they don't have it in this area yet.
Well when you are transferring large amounts of data and running multiple computers at once fast Ethernet isn't enough. It only has about a 50-60 mb/s throughput. While a gb Ethernet will get you about 500+ mb/s throughput. Vastly higher.
And yes... You don't actually get the 100 or 1000 mb/s as they are stated for.
And you don't really need Cat 6. Cat 5e is more then enough for most environments. Only with very high network load does a Cat 6 makes any difference. And if he already has Cat 5e running though the house it makes no since to rip it out and replace it with Cat 6. It will just run up a lot of money to do for little gain.
Stop spamming that.
Anyways get back on topic people about HDDs. =P
Nopeace - out
Also quoting your image (hahaha very funny:po: ) I would also mention the fact that to have 2 hdd in your pc and "a crate more unnconnected drives", would usually mean that you arent the adverage user, as im talking about the people who only know how to click a few buttons and read there email, and jack all else.
PHOTO (my hdds): http://web.aanet.com.au/imortelrealm/hdd.JPG
Last edited by fatslob222; 15-04-07 at 02:10 AM. Reason: thought ide show my hdd
@ nopeace cat5e is 10g certified (i think) if the cables have been layed it will do fine but if they havnt might aswell put cat6 in just to future proof things a bit.
The more GB(400~1000GB) the worst cause if a virus attacks ur HD u lose everything xD
Thats why we make ghost images of all important data. I could do with a bigger drive, but if i want 1TB i'd simply buy 4x250gb SATA drives and put them in RAID for a cheaper option
im on a laptop so external is the only option. 500gb should do nicely
Actually that wouldn't be a cheaper option. =P
250gb drives cost $85 each.
500gb drives cost $125 each.
So you can see what would be a cheaper option. =P
NoPEace - out
Sardaukar, I have been looking for a decent backup program, and was wondering what you use?
I have one of these great little thing, except its called a MyBook Platinum, has pretty decent read and write speeds. Only cost $225 USD
How Many GB?
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