PC Tech Thread

I seem to have amassed a worrying amount of usb-chargeable devices in the last 6 months and it's becoming cumbersome to try and keep them all charged.

anyone got a good recommendation for a powered usb hub capable of charging a sizeable amount of these at once...

ipad 2
htc one
bluetooth speaker
bluetooth headphones
2x bike lights
kindle
nook

A couple of these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-high-power-4-PORT-USB-MAINS-PLUG-AC-ADAPTOR-Wall-CHARGER-71-/111075365316

Unless you have a honking PSU, your PC will suffer if you have too many USB peripherals charging.

hence powered, as in with its own psu. noob.

Definitely get this.

Throw everything except the phone and the headphones in the bin. Sorted.

everyone knows your success in life is measured by how many gadgets you own, what you propose is tantamount to becoming a monk and living in a monastery for the rest of my life.

No, in this modern world, minimalism is a buzzword for 'legend in the sack'.

K.I.S.S. isn't just an acronym, honey.

Any suggestions for decent/reasonably priced online backup. I've got a server with about 10TB of data that I keep thinking I should really backup but I don't really want to splash out on drives to do that.

I'm concerned about upload speed as well. I'm on the basic Virgin Package and my rough calculations suggest it will take about 230 days to upload 10TB, does that sound right?

Do you really mean TB?

As, in you have 10,000 GB to upload?

If so, yup, that sounds reasonable on the upload time, and the only cost efficient storage that exists has a big assumption that you don't need immediate access.

In which case, http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/ is what you need.

You didn't say what your home system is, but you'd need a client that could read from your local drives and copy to Glacier.

Even then, this being the cheapest... you're still look at over $110 per month to store 10TB.

Did you really mean TB?

If you did, buy 3 huge hard drives, split your local storage into 3 x 4TB buckets, and just back them up to disk and leave the disks off-site.

That way you'll overcome all of the cost and speed issues.

10TB is not yet an amount that is cheap and easy to backup.

i didn't think people bothered backing their porn up anyways.

Any suggestions for decent/reasonably priced online backup. I've got a server with about 10TB of data that I keep thinking I should really backup but I don't really want to splash out on drives to do that.

I'm concerned about upload speed as well. I'm on the basic Virgin Package and my rough calculations suggest it will take about 230 days to upload 10TB, does that sound right?

You could use Bitcasa ... it's a shit load cheaper than Amazon. I've restored from it as well no problems. Note: I also back up via crashplan to my NAS as I'm slightly paranoid :)

Here's a link for a free month if you want to try it: http://l.bitcasa.com/PGRt6TPu

Do you really mean TB?

As, in you have 10,000 GB
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OK, 10,240 GB.

I'm doing the standard consumer math rather than realistic compsci math.

I did mean TB. Mainly Flacs, Blu-Ray rips (so I have everything on XBMC) and RAW files. Most of it I could re-rip but it's a hassle. I only started working out the upload time after I did the first half of the post and, if that seems right, it looks like I'm going with a few big USB drives (and probably not bothering to back up all the Blu-ray rips).

Cheers

10,240 GB.
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are you just making up words now?

SSD deals? Little laptop HDD is choking and Win 8 fucks me off so wanna SSD this bitch and put 7 back on.

Hah!

I've got an MSDN subscription, installed Win8, and two days later switched the hell back to Win7.

I bought the 25 quid offer they had to try it out. I've left it on, given it a fair go but it really is annoying. Dumb shit like needing emails to add users annoys the crap out of me. gf's laptop is on its last legs so I gave her mine to use and it's slow (hence need for SSD) but the sign up process just to add a new user was bullshit. I don't want to create a fucking Outlook.com account just to add a new profile. The security question wouldn't allow her first pet's name as it was too short. It wan't other information so I had to fill it with bullshit so the NSA don't get it all. :)

Fuck Win 8. Now I need to extract the key from her old laptop, I've ordered a Samsung 840 256gb and I'll install Win 7 onto that, maybe copy her crap over or add it to a caddy or something.

Has anybody had issues with windows not booting when a WD external drive is plugged in?

Apparently the fix is a little driver install which I have done but it's not working. Driving me mad this.

May just be a BIOS setting to boot from external drive.

That's a fairly standard thing for installing Windows, and perhaps the person that did the install never flicked the setting back.

Nah, I've tried all that. Excluding it from the boot order just leaves it hanging at the logo screen on start up too.

Apparently it's a common thing on this WD MyBook, fix just isn't working for me

OR

To disable USB legacy support which I can't even get to

Actually I remember my computer used to loop when booting if I left the USB card reader plugged in.

But since I've done a reinstall with an SSD It's been fine.

Powerline ethernet help, please.

Never had to dabble in this dark art before, at my current (pardon the pun) place I've got a 10m ethernet cable trapped in the window frames and going up the outside of the building. Moving soon tho', and although in the long term I'd like to get the place networked properly, I need a more immediate alternative to wireless.

Does the powerline stuff always work well, or is it very dependent of the state and layout of your mains wiring? I'm not after Gb speeds, more concerned about stability and security. Any recommendations or suggestions would be very much appreciated.

Quick tip: Don't buy 2.5" hdd for a 1.8" laptop bay.