Blueacid

There are lots of providers in the Cloud Storage spcae, offering a variety of solutions, products, and pricing.

I decided to do some datahoarder-specific shopping. Therefore these providers and pricing are calculated assuming that:

• You are looking for somewhere cheapish online to back up 1 (or many more) terabytes of data.
• You don't want to jump on the next "UNLIMITED STORAGE!" provider offering unsustainable pricing (will they still be there when you need to do a restore?)
• You don't need the data to be 'hot' (that is, you are tolerant of a delay between pressing the button and getting your data back).
• You're likely to upload once and read seldom. This is very much a backup option,

Hi everyone! Making my first jump into the SFFPC world. I've got everything I need except the case and CPU cooler. Time to go shopping, but first I'd like some advice!

The parts I've got are: AMD 3600x (yeah, 95w tdp sadly) MSI B450I Gaming Plus AC 32GB Corsair Vengeance LPX (So I think that's considered to be low profile?) Reusing my Geforce 970 for now, I'll upgrade that in a month or two when I've saved up. Corsair SF600

So, a few questions about what to buy next:

1. I'm leaning toward the SM560, only because it allows for slightly thicker graphics cards - is that a good plan? Would I likely be backing myself into a corner to get the SM550 and then have to shop carefully to get somethi

Hi there everyone,

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The current machine

I've currently got PFsense running on a small fanless industrial PC I bought a year or so ago.

It's an Atom D525 (dual core w/HT), 1.8Ghz, 4GB of RAM and four onboard gigabit realtek NICs. I'm pretty sure it's this motherboard: http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/NF38.html inside it, but can't be certain.

I know I know, realtek and FreeBSD aren't best friends. However, I compiled realtek's latest drivers for FreeBSD, sideloaded them and have had stable & sufficient performance for my (previous) WAN speed.

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My current use

I don't really do much clever stuff, but it's all on

Hi Guys, I'd consider myself a relative novice in terms of dedicated storage arrays.

Current situation My fileserver currently is a HP Microserver (N36L) with 8GB of ECC RAM. There's small SSD for the system drive (Debian plus ZFS on Linux), 4x2TB SATA drives in the microserver, configured as RAID-Z1. I've added a PCI-Express eSATA card, and connected a 4-bay DAS which contains 4x3TB SATA, again as a RAID-Z1.

I've got ample offline&offsite backup of the valuable data, so I'm not so worried about the use of RaidZ1.

However, I'm looking at improving. I've got a 16-bay Chenbro case, which has four SAS/SATA2 backplanes in it. The manual for the backplane is here: https://www.sander-eu

Hi Everyone,

I'm looking to rebuild my HTPC and would like to hear any suggestions you have on what operating system would be best for the things I want to do with it. First of all, the spec / main connectivity:-

• AMD Kabini 5350
• MSI AM1 Motherboard
• 4GB DDR3 RAM
• 32GB USB3 boot device (I'm completely open to the idea of getting a full SSD for it)
• GigE network connection, with my NAS serving up SMB/NFS shares.
• HDMI out to AV Receiver and TV

Also,

• Logitech K400 Keyboard
• USB Bluetooth 4.0 receiver
• Two Dualshock 4 controllers

What I'd like to do with it:-

• Use Kodi to watch media from the NAS
• Watch iPlayer and YouTube; happy to do this with a browser or perhaps Kodi plu

My google-fu is failing me. I remember reading about some media software that would create fake "TV"-style channels with a media collection. For example, I could create a channel for Family Guy and American Dad that I could later tune into and find halfway through an episode that I might not have picked when faced with the choice of "any series, any episode you like". You could set up several internal channels to suit your needs, and select what TV series go into that channel.

...does this exist? Or did I just make it up?