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