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    Does anyone have experience with Serverpartdeals?

    Thanks. I have decided to go for different drives and vendors instead.
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    Does anyone have experience with Serverpartdeals?

    I was looking at this shop Server Part Deals | Enterprise Drives and I was wondering if anyone had experience before with them? I'm in Canada so shipping, cost and warranty are factors.
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    Airport extreme showing its age, Looking at replacement

    I have an old Airport Extreme that has been the main routing workhorse for my family and myself. It is starting to show its age. It appears to be dropping wireless network connections. I caught it on both my iPhone and MacBook Pro going from my "5G"hz network to my regular non Ghz network...
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    Current router on its way out... possible replacement?

    Yes, one access point covers my whole home, and yes, it handles all clients well.
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    Current router on its way out... possible replacement?

    I'm not quite sure if this fits here, but here we go: I have an old AirPort Extreme 802.11ac that the 5Ghz radio is going on it. Usually stuff on the 5Ghz band will randomly go to 6 Mbps speed and drop everything. I have verified this on 2 separate machines. When this happens the machines say...
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    Big Hardware Failure

    Hoping for the best!
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    WD Red & avoiding the SMR pitfall

    They just put out a press release: On WD Red NAS Drives - Western Digital Corporate Blog
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    WD Red & avoiding the SMR pitfall

    Go ahead and merge threads if needed. I'm fine with it.
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    FYI: Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording

    Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording – Blocks and Files
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    I think I'm loosing my mind

    Tyvm. Bloody awesome build.
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    I think I'm loosing my mind

    Link to your build or it didn't happen. :p
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    Some big news for STH

    Congrats Patrick!
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    Graphs on STH

    I believe they're called "PivotTables" which can be picky yet make great things.
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    what isp do you use for home labs

    While my homelab is non-existant except for one mac mini, I use a regional ISP, which happens to be the best in Canada, voted by J.D. Power. I'll give you a cookie if you can guess who. :P They are expanding from A/V DSL tech to GPON, but our home isn't on the list yet. Only have DSL 5/0.6 atm...
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    Overpowered PLEX Server

    Congrats on the new build and becoming a member of STH! I've been looking for something a lot more affordable on the pocketbook and your build might suit what I have in mind. Thanks for posting it!
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    24/7 server running on enthusiast gear: overclocking wise or foolish?

    Headless server was always the intention. I only have $350 CAD to start with, which is why I thought this server was a good idea. Needs sata ports and IPMI. Main Usages as stated earlier: 24/7 Headless server running Ubuntu 14.04. Will be handling about almost anything, including running...
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    24/7 server running on enthusiast gear: overclocking wise or foolish?

    I'm not sure if anyone is keeping an eye on this, but I just found a server that meets my needs. It will need some TLC and upgrades, but for $350 CAD I can swing it no problem! Lot less than $1.5K! How does it look? HP Proliant DL180 Server | servers | Saskatoon | Kijiji The server is also...
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    24/7 server running on enthusiast gear: overclocking wise or foolish?

    Thanks for all of your responses. I have bought none of the parts I listed above, which was one of the reasons I was second guessing the build in the first place. From what you are all telling me, I would be stupid to go for the build I had listed from that guy from Reddit. Overclocking on a...
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    24/7 server running on enthusiast gear: overclocking wise or foolish?

    I posted this request to reddit a while ago and I am starting to question one of my points: $1.5-2K CAD Linux Home server with (eventual) large migration of data: Plex, Torrents, game servers, VMs and 15TB of data high on ZFS : buildapcforme Here's a persons response to my plea: I went with a...
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    WD RED: Possible refresh soon?

    So I've been in the market to build a server, and I had the part list ready to go except, how I was going to stock the thing with DATA drives? I wanted to go $200 MAX per 4TB drive, and I settled on the WD RED series. Checked yesterday and it said it could only do 1-5 in a NAS, my server will...