Ah, okay. I have that SanDisk Ultra II SSD and an old 1TB HDD. Works fine. Never thought that such a setup would be that good. A nice fast SSD and some modern 4TB HDDs with good speed and reliability are really the best you can do, since you have the advantages of both.
I want to get a NAS with firewire access too. Dont think many are about though. Seems I can either get a firewire hard drive (which I can use with 1 device) or a NAS. Not both. Seen NAS'es that support direct USB before though.
I had thoughts of NAS some years back turning the Cellar into a small server room...but that got shelved some time ago but I may consider it still...need to get a job then buy the stuff needed...
Those old HDDs are great for holding partitions that you won't access often, and for backups. And they look really good as placeholders in shelves, which I can send you a pic of if you want. @SixSixSevenSeven Do you talk about external hard drives (I sound dumb, I know)? If so, I'd go with USB 3.0, since you won't find very many Firewire-capable PCs except yours.
Oh, I thought they would look different. Misunderstood you. I wouldn't recommend it though, at least use a good looking template.
Eh I have the stuff to make a NAS if need be in the form of a spare 500gb USB hard drive and a raspberry pi. Not hard to whack a samba share on one
nah. a NAS is network attached. Its just a few NAS'es can also be accessed over USB, I want one with direct firewire access too. I do own 2 firewire capable PCs and have considered adding firewire to another. EDIT: wow I managed a buggered quote and a double post. Noob. At least its in off topic.
To be exactly i have 3 GTX 970's, one PNY and two EVGA SSC's. And i use the EVGA's cause they are the same
I do most of the time know what an NAS is. Like 99% of the time. There's always someone who's worse. Three? Isn't that a bit many?
It's Z170 (or H170), and technically the chipset before Z170 is Z97. X99 is the latest high end chipset, successor to X79, will probably be replaced by X290 in 2017 (Broadwell-E will use X99 too).
Ah well, I made a mistake calling it X170 I was meaning Z170, its the tick successor to X79, and the tock successor to X99 will be that X290 you stated...I needed to check my facts were correct...
The X290 thing is just a wild guess. Since X chipsets are used for two generations of CPUs (Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E both used X79, Haswell-E and Broadwell-E both use X99) as opposed to Z/H (Sandy Bridge used P/H67/Z68, Ivy Bridge used H/Z77, Haswell used H/Z87, Broadwell used H/Z97 and Skylake uses H/Z170), there will be no X190 and the next chipset will be most likely X290.
Who knows, but I am happy with X99 so far its good and its rock stable and it doesnt start throwing tantrums when I point it at games that would make my old machine make Chernobyl look like a match being struck...
Oh, definitely. X99 is the best chipset around and will be for a while. The new Broadwell-E CPUs will use X99 too.
