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Expansion Advice

Calling all nerds…. I need help… I have a big problem, I need to find a cost efficient way to “fix” my poorly configured NAS server.

Here’s the dilemma: I have a server with 9 Hard drives: 6x3TB drives, 3x2TB drives, it’s configured to about 66% efficiency beacause I acquired all of those drives over time… long story short, I need to “Temporarily” store 11TB of stuff somewhere.

My machine can only hold 3 more drives without significant modification, and my budget to fix is about $300, which limits my purchases to about 3x3TB drives…

So my questions are as follows: does anyone have any large hard drives laying around that I can borrow?

Does anyone know of any good hard drive deals?

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Welcome Spiny!

<nerd> I’d like to welcome Spiny to the family. </nerd>

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Selling Old Stuff!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102098

Alright, I’ve been talking about it for a while… I’m “upgrading” my VMware environment to these, which means I’m selling two decent PCs.

1st:
ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0
AMD fx 8320 eight core processor
16GB (2x8GB) RAM

2nd
Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3
AMD FX 8120 eight core processor
16GB (2x8GB) RAM

If you are interested, let me know, as asking price depends on a few things, (whether or not you want it shipped, whether or not you want me to install a hard drive, graphics card, etc.

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Intel NUCs

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102002
Dear Santa – We work hard all day sharing Brad’s nerdiness with the world, and we really could use 2 of these with 16g of RAM, word on the street is that they run VMware ESXi really well.
Thank you,
Bowser, KoopaTroopa, and Goomba

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DDNS

If any of my nerd friends need DDNS, let me know… my server supports it… I can probably figure out a way to do it with your own domain too. Just let me know.