PC Master Race Mid tier refresh build...

[MYstIC G]

I should add - I have quite alot of old photos which I do want to keep, so I maintain a full raid on my machines for safety...

EDIT - and no, Tony, you big nose, not p0rn!!!

Fair play, didn't know what you were going for in terms of outlay/need, was curious because I'd recommended at 20TB in another thread that I'd picked up recently.

 

[Jupitus]

Ok, it's build time. I have downloaded the latest BIOS for the mobo, plus all their available drivers and for now prepared a win10 installation media USB. I also have the latest copy of samsung magician which facilitates firmware updates for the SSD.

Question for the wise, given I struggle a bit on RAID - is it fair to assume I can take 1 physical disk out of my machine where it's in a raid array and then install that on new machine just for copying? I am pretty sure the OS will be funky about picking it up properly... ? They show up as dynamic in 'diskmanager, 'mirrored volume' and I think the raid is done via the software rather than at bios level. Any suggestions or advice? I am confident I'll be ok building the new machine but options for copying stuff between old and new would be good to know - it'll take a long time to copy over the network, although worst case I can do that if needs be!

I'll check in for advice from time to time - wish me luck!!

 

[Deebs]

I should add - I have quite alot of old photos which I do want to keep, so I maintain a full raid on my machines for safety...

EDIT - and no, Tony, you big nose, not p0rn!!!

Fucksake, use computers and storage for what they were invented for.

Sounds like you could do with building a DIY NAS. Two of them. You backup your RAIDed PC data to the NAS, and then sync the data off the NAS to the other NAS conveniently placed off-site. That is of course after making cold backup copy on an external drive, and then buying a LTO Library to perform tape backups of the PC _and_ NAS.

It's only sensible.

This is what I do, warm copies on-site and then realtime replication to offsite storage.

And yes Jon this is for my pr0n collection, some of which is so old when I play it back its the size of a postage stamp due to advances in resolution and before some clever cunt comes along, no, it is not black & white.

 

[MYstIC G]

Ok, it's build time. I have downloaded the latest BIOS for the mobo, plus all their available drivers and for now prepared a win10 installation media USB. I also have the latest copy of samsung magician which facilitates firmware updates for the SSD.

Question for the wise, given I struggle a bit on RAID - is it fair to assume I can take 1 physical disk out of my machine where it's in a raid array and then install that on new machine just for copying? I am pretty sure the OS will be funky about picking it up properly... ? They show up as dynamic in 'diskmanager, 'mirrored volume' and I think the raid is done via the software rather than at bios level. Any suggestions or advice? I am confident I'll be ok building the new machine but options for copying stuff between old and new would be good to know - it'll take a long time to copy over the network, although worst case I can do that if needs be!

I'll check in for advice from time to time - wish me luck!!

I would network copy personally, if you take it out and break the array in a way you can't recover, there won't be anything left to copy

 

[Jupitus]

I would network copy personally, if you take it out and break the array in a way you can't recover, there won't be anything left to copy

Yeah, that's pretty much what I have decided to do- slow but safe

 

[old.Osy]

That's what she said.

 

[Scouse]

win10

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[Jupitus]

??

Yeah, odd, I know, but the thinking is to get the rig running on an OS I trust. Once running I'll likely rebuild fresh with 11

 

[Deebs]

Yeah, odd, I know, but the thinking is to get the rig running on an OS I trust. Once running I'll likely rebuild fresh with 11

LOL, you trust an OS from MS? I fucking hate those cunts but alas sometimes you just have to bite the pillow whilst being shafted. On any new install I do run some debloaters to remove/fight against the telemetry.

 

[Overdriven]

LOL, you trust an OS from MS? I fucking hate those cunts but alas sometimes you just have to bite the pillow whilst being shafted. On any new install I do run some debloaters to remove/fight against the telemetry.

GitHub - Raphire/Win11Debloat: A simple, easy to use PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps from Windows, disable telemetry, remove Bing from Windows search as well as perform various other changes to declutter and improve your Windows experi

A simple, easy to use PowerShell script to remove pre-installed apps from Windows, disable telemetry, remove Bing from Windows search as well as perform various other changes to declutter and impro...

github.com