Hey nginx what do you think of opening up the enclosures of your External HDDs and making RAID 0+1 internal?
Building Gaming PC for 105k
tkin
Back to school!!
Why would he then buy externals @ higher price? *faints*
mukherjee
Treatment in progress...
Are you in your right frame of mind?
Lets think for academic purposes we consider he does open up the external HDDs up...wat about the warranty then???
Please comment constructively..people can be misguided otherwise
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I just asked what he thought of it...I did not ask you to debunk it because I know the consequences 
mukherjee
Treatment in progress...
I just asked what he thought of it...I did not ask you to debunk it because I know the consequences
Ok sorry, my bad.
shayem
In the zone
well I just posted some point to help you deciding. You will use that, so last decision will be yours
That'll not help much cause both give 300Mbps(max) wireless speed. But having less NVRAM can be a problem IMO.
And RT-N16 is a good router too. E3000 is preferred by advanced user who can tweak config.
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nginx
In the zone
Powered. They will stay at home sitting on my desk all the time. No need for portability.
If I had any intention of doing that, why would I waste extra money on externals? Internal is much much cheaper and also faster. I will be buying 4TB of internal storage anyway. This 4TB of external storage is for backup and I think its a much wiser decision rather than doing RAID 10 for backup because RAID won't protect your drives from power surges or virus attacks. RAID 10 is only good for redundancy, not backup.
well I just posted some point to help you deciding. You will use that, so last decision will be yours
That'll not help much cause both give 300Mbps(max) wireless speed. But having less NVRAM can be a problem IMO.
And RT-N16 is a good router too. E3000 is preferred by advanced user who can tweak config.
I think you are underestimating the importance of the router's CPU and RAM. The speed is not a factor since even the cheapest N router offer 300mbps on 40Mhz. The more RAM a router has, the more number of simultaneous connections it can handle and that means downloading more torrents at one go without the router hanging up and requiring a reboot. The more processing power the router's CPU has, smoother will be its operation. This is where the Asus RT-N16 owns.
But hey thanks for laying the down the options on the table for me. Its always good to make comparisons before buying.
shayem
In the zone
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nginx
In the zone
I didn't quite get your post. What exactly do you want to know? If you want more details, why don't you tell me? Or are you saying 5400rpm is not good enough for external HDDs? Externals are not as fast as internals and 5400rpm is still standard spec for external HDDs.
tkin
Back to school!!
No issue with 5400 RPM, USB 2.0 can't even sustain more than 30MBps, while 5400 HDDs can sustain 60MBps bandwidth, so you are already bottlenecked by interface. USB 3.0 is another story, but anyway 7200 RPM hdds require more power than USB 2.0 can provide.
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nginx
In the zone
Nicely put tkin.