<div dir="auto">Just an idea and ballpark cost. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 6:11 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">yeah? I was planning on doing the enclosure thing powered separately.<br>
As for whether my USBs are 1 or 2 lshw|grep us seems to indicate I<br>
only have USB2. But you know what they say.... play with what you<br>
have!<br>
*-usb:0<br>
*-usbhost<br>
bus info: usb@1<br>
logical name: usb1<br>
capabilities: usb-2.00<br>
*-usb<br>
bus info: usb@1:1<br>
capabilities: usb-2.00<br>
*-usb:1<br>
*-usbhost<br>
bus info: usb@2<br>
logical name: usb2<br>
capabilities: usb-2.00<br>
*-usb<br>
bus info: usb@2:1<br>
capabilities: usb-2.00<br>
*-usb:0<br>
bus info: usb@2:1.4<br>
capabilities: bluetooth usb-2.00<br>
configuration: driver=btusb speed=12Mbit/s<br>
*-usb:1<br>
bus info: usb@2:1.7<br>
capabilities: usb-2.00<br>
*-usb:0<br>
bus info: usb@2:1.7.2<br>
capabilities: usb-1.10<br>
configuration: driver=usbhid maxpower=100mA<br>
speed=2Mbit/s<br>
*-usb:1<br>
bus info: usb@2:1.7.3<br>
capabilities: usb-2.00<br>
configuration: driver=usbhid maxpower=98mA<br>
speed=2Mbit/s<br>
*-usb:2<br>
bus info: usb@2:1.7.4<br>
capabilities: usb-2.00 scsi emulated scsi-host<br>
configuration: driver=usb-storage<br>
maxpower=100mA speed=480Mbit/s<br>
<br>
On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 4:21 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss<br>
<<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> It's a good idea, however I don't think a NUC will have a big enough<br>
> power supply to support that many hard drives. If you could get that<br>
> many attached to it, it would probably cause the hard drive to fail<br>
> rather quickly on a NUC. You would need to get some sort of external<br>
> USB attached hard drive enclosure with it's own power supply to make it<br>
> work right. I would only do that if your NUC has USB3 and the enclosure<br>
> also is USB3. USB2 would just make your storage painfully slow.<br>
><br>
> An NVMe is a new kind of SSD that is essentially attached directly to a<br>
> mini PCIe port. Since it can be accessed at PCIe speeds it isn't bottle<br>
> necked by the SATA bus, so the read speeds are in gigabytes per second.<br>
> Or in other words it makes everything hard drive related happen<br>
> instantly. Boot times are usually less that 2 to 3 seconds. Login<br>
> times are virtually instant. When you first get one, you will tell your<br>
> computer to reboot and then wonder why al lt did was logout until you<br>
> realize that it completely shut down and rebooted to the login screen in<br>
> less time than your old computer could just logout.<br>
><br>
> Brian Cluff<br>
><br>
> On 7/18/20 12:35 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> > Thanks Brian. The hard drive is actually only 5yo with 2 years of use.<br>
> > What is a NVMe? What do you think about what I';m thinking about doing<br>
> > with the NUC?<br>
> ><br>
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2020 at 3:29 AM Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> >> You'll need RAM too... didn't see that in the list.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I would also make sure that you get a motherboard that has a place for<br>
> >> at least 1 NVMe. Then I would recommend that you get at least one<br>
> >> NVMe. It doesn't have to be huge, but if you can put at least your OS<br>
> >> on the NVMe, it will make your whole machine feel 50 times faster than<br>
> >> if you keep using a 10 year old hard drive.... Trust me, it will be<br>
> >> worth every cent to get it.<br>
> >><br>
> >> I would also recommend getting an AMD machine right now. You can get a<br>
> >> whole lot more for your money right now with AMD.<br>
> >><br>
> >> BTW What's the price range you are looking at spending?<br>
> >><br>
> >> Brian Cluff<br>
> >><br>
> >> On 7/17/20 11:11 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:<br>
> >>> I think I figured out what I want to do..... I'm going to buy a<br>
> >>> chassis, motherboard, CPU, and power supply and then frankenstein the<br>
> >>> hard drive, the wireless card, and the video card from the old machine<br>
> >>> (got to do this as cheaply as I can). What else could I frankenstein?<br>
> >>><br>
> >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:25 PM Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> >>>> Wellp, I am going to do something I never have done before..... I'm<br>
> >>>> going to get a new computer. Well I think I'll have one put<br>
> >>>> together.... I'll put it together. Where would go to get a chassis and<br>
> >>>> motherboard then I'll put all of the other guts in. Is such an animal<br>
> >>>> in existence?I thought of another NUC but they aren't like what they<br>
> >>>> were. Should I wait until black Friday and get a windows machine in the sales?<br>
> >>>><br>
> >>>> --<br>
> >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:<br>
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