{"id":1531,"date":"2011-04-24T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2011-04-24T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T17:55:30","slug":"new_computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=1531","title":{"rendered":"New Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nI like my new computer. It is pretty fast. And great for picture processing and video editing. The only drawback is that it generates a lot of heat. My house air conditioner is not well suited for keeping my office cold while keeping the rest of my house warm (79). Maybe I should buy a window AC?\n<\/p>\n

\nIt’s always a little scary putting a bunch of components together. You never know if the computer will work correctly when you turn it on for the first time.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere is what I purchased:\n<\/p>\n

Antec Nine Hundred Two Black Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case<\/p>\n

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GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5 AM3 AMD 890FX SATA 6Gb\/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard<\/p>\n

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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Thuban 3.2GHz 6 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Desktop Processor<\/p>\n

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SAPPHIRE 100297L Radeon HD 5830 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.1 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card w\/ ATI Eyefinity Technology<\/p>\n


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Thermaltake Black Widow W0319RU 850W ATX 12V v2.3, EPS 12V v2.91 CrossFire Certified 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Modular Active PFC Power Supply<\/p>\n

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Kingston 16GB (4 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Desktop Memory Model<\/p>\n

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Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2MH160G2R5 2.5" 160GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive<\/p>\n

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OCZ RevoDrive X2 OCZSSDPX-1RVDX0240 PCI-E 240GB PCI-Express x4 MLC Internal Solid State Drive<\/p>\n

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Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb\/s 3.5"<\/p>\n

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Pioneer Black 12X BD-R 2X BD-RE 16X DVD+R 5X DVD-RAM 8X BD-ROM 4MB Cache SATA Internal Blu-ray Burner Blu-ray Disc\/DVD\/CD Writer<\/p>\n

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Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit 1-Pack for System Builders – OEM<\/p>\n

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Synology DS411J 4100 4TB (4x1TB) DiskStation 4-bay NAS Server for Small Office and Home Use<\/p>\n

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Synology DS411+ Diskless System DiskStation 4-bay All-in-1 NAS Server for SMB Users<\/p>\n

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\nWhile I technically did not buy them when I bought my computer, I did buy some more toys for speed and reliability recently. They were the RevoDrive and the two Synology RAID NAS drives.\n<\/p>\n

\nLately, I’ve been obsessed with the reliability of my data storage. I used to have Buffalo Terrastation NAS drive. This used RAID5. Now RAID5 is good for reliability. But if a second drive fails during a rebuild of the first failed drive, then you can lose your data.\n<\/p>\n

\nWhile doing research, I came across Synology<\/a>. They supported RAID6 (among all of the others) and they supported a bunch of other features. They are actually small computers running Linux. I liked the fact that I would not need another computer to synchronize my data between the two NAS storage units. I could ssh directly into the NAS box and perform my rsync there.\n<\/p>\n

So I bought a Synology DS411J with 1.78 Terrabytes of storage. I definitely made a mistake here and under-bought for my future needs. Because when I was satisfied with the Synology architecture, I bought a Synology DS411+ with 5.6 terrabytes. They are both 4 drive bay systems. But the 411+ has a faster CPU which will help in computing checksums during rsyncs.\n<\/p>\n

\nAnother thing that worried me is what would happen if my house burned down or some thief stole my computer equipment? There were no backups. So I decided to have two NAS drives. One would be in my house and the second would be at work. I could easily keep them synced up. And I would have backups in those two scenarios. Of course, if Austin got nuked and I survived, I would still lose my data. A slightly better scenario would be to keep the second NAS in some other state (like Florida).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like my new computer. It is pretty fast. And great for picture processing and video editing. The only drawback is that it generates a lot of heat. My house air conditioner is not well suited for keeping my office cold while keeping the rest of my house warm (79). Maybe I should buy a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}