Cobian and Drive Bender, both on my server. I back up practically everything, including stuff like games from my main rig, which are easily replaceable, but only because I have the storage space. I'll start making sacrifices once I get a bit closer to running out, but as of now I'm at 1.17/5.91TB free. I also selectively use Crashplan for irreplaceable files (music, photos, books), as a secondary remote backup solution.
I keep my documents, photos and other images like wallpapers, avatars and such on Dropbox.
For backup I have everything going to a 3TB Time Capsule (Windows just mounts it as a network share and use the built in software, the macs use Time Machine).
In the garage I have a drobo that stores media connected to an airport extreme. Every night the Time Capsule gets backed up to the drobo (using rsync). If a hard disk dies I can restore from the Time Capsule, if a house fire happens then my garage will probably survive because it's not attached to my house: I can restore from the backups there losing < 24 hours of data.
Roughly ever 4-6 weeks I backup the drobo drives using one of those 'hard disk toaster' things (made by nextar, nexar, something like that). The total is 12 TB so I have to manually swap disks roughly once every 4 hours as the USB transfer speed is horribly slow. The backup disks are kept at my parents house about 50km out of town. If there's ever a regional disaster like a flood that destroys my neighborhood then I'll have a copy I can get from them. Most of the drobo data is media but it would take forever to redownload the music from itunes and I'm sure as hell not re-ripping the documentaries/movies: I don't even have most of the discs any more. Even if I could get it all from pirate websites it would still take a month or more to download several terabytes of data so it's worth the few hundred bucks to have a good quality back.
For anything super important like work I keep a copy or two on USB disk and a copy stored on AWS S3 (50gb is only ~ $50/year)
New desk, new chair, new gaming setup complete!
Computer stuffs:
I5 2300, 6GB DDR3, ASUS HD 7850, Antec 520W PSU, BitFenix Merc Alpha case.
LG E2060T on the right, E2442 on the left.
Peripherals:
Razer Goliathus Extended Speed edition, Razer Carcharias, Logitech G710+, Logitech G600 and Altec Lansing VS4621 2.1 speakers.
Other stuff:
Sony PlayStation 3D display, PS2 & PS3.
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All the cool kids were posting their tablets, I figured I'd put up mine.
I probably do more gaming on it than my PC because I'm able to carry it with me. It's also able to run wow via splashtop well enough to check the AH while I'm on the train which is cool. If anybody has an Olympus Pen (EP3), maybe you can explain why the hell mine is stuck taking 'square' pictures. I lent it to my brother and he brought it back "weird".
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what desk is that roberts? looks nice to replace my current desk (dual screen 27" so stuck with 2 desks to keep my setup running XD)
its a galant from ikea.
edit: bah u beat me to it
Grandmaster Tidestout<Stand Tall>US-Stormrage
It's this Galant setup specifically. Look at you Americans and your fancy low prices...that was $249 here in Ontario!
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I got bored at night, so I took some pictures and went crazy with the blur tool.
Desktop
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 945
MB: ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS
GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6770
RAM: 8GB Kingston HyperX Red
HDD: 600GB Western Digital SATA
SSD: 128GB Intel 300
OS: Windows 8 64-bit
Case: NZXT Source 210 Black
Mouse: Razer Naga
Keyboard: Razer Lycosa
Monitor(s): 2x Acer S230HL 23"
Speakers: Logitech X530 5.1
Mouse Pad: XTrac Pads Ripper
Laptop
CPU: Intel Core i7-3630QM 2.4GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M
RAM: 8GB DDR3
Display: 15.6" 1920x1080
HDD: 750GB SATA
OS: Windows 8 64-bit
Last edited by Towstie; 2013-03-26 at 04:57 AM.
Bokeh has it's uses but it needs to be done carefully for good effect, and that's an example of doing it horribly wrong :S
@Sphexy thanks for posting pics! Your hardware is alright (the laptop is nice!) but the photography...has a long way to go. I see what you tried to do there, but don't let the effects get the better of you
WoW Character: Wintel - Frostmourne (OCE)
Gaming rig: i7 7700K, GTX 1080 Ti, 16GB DDR4, BenQ 144hz 1440p
Signature art courtesy of Blitzkatze
not as clean as what most of you guys do, but I lack patience and space (or skill)
cpu : i7-2600k (corsair H100 cooler)
mobo : Asus Sabretooth Z77
case : CORSAIR Vengeance C70 GunMetal
Memory : 16 GB patriot Extreme masters
GPU : Asus 580 GTX
sound : soundblaster Xi-Fi titanium Fatality
hdd's : Intel SSD 320 120GB and 2x 1TB WD Caviar Black in Raid 0
Keyboard : Logitech G510 (might replace it soonish)
Mouse : Steelseries Sensei
Kinda a shame being that the only real benefit to a Sabertooth is how it looks in a clean build ><
It's really not that hard to hide your wires... just make sure you run everything behind the MoBo tray and only push through the amount of wire needed then zip tie it all up and you have a beautiful build. I would've opted for black memory however.
5 Year Warranty
Great overclocker
Reliable, good quality components
Specific features you might want
Technically you do get lower temps on the board but granted it's nothing that really matters.
Either way you're right, besides all that there isn't much extra you get for the extra ~$50 you pay (Sushi for two equivalent lol)
The cables are overlapping eachother everywhere. The cpu cable could come out of that hole in the left corner of your case and your PSU's molex cable shouldn't be sticking out in your case. You can extended the H100's molex cable btw, just hold the 3pin with your left hand and pull the molex plug with your right hand.
That looks really awesome. I hope to achieve a similar look soon enough.
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