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Wirlankarra yanama
Join Date: May 2006
Location: God's Country
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Conversation at work about how much IT stuff we have, it is frightening
Currently at home we have 3 laptops on WIN7 1 laptop on Vista 1 laptop on XP 2 Apple Mac's 1 laptop on LINUX 2 24" LCD panels with KVM's 3 Nexus 7's 1 iPAD Air 8 iPhones (4 of which are on contract) 3 Garmin GPS's Billion ADSL wireless router Cisco 30 port Gigabit switch 8TB of NAS 4 Access Points UPS's supporting most equipment 30RU cabinet 2 "smart" TV's 2 Apple TV Patch panel with Cat6e throughout the house Not to mention various sticks of old RAM, hard drives, mice, keyboards, blank CD's and DVD's |
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Isn't it obvious?
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Location: in a world of idiots
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3 laptops
both toshibas one for me and one for the misses plus a hp laptop in the cupboard just in case all on windows nettgear wireless router 2 andrioid phones 1 tb portable hd 2 tb portable hd pretty basic really
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
Posts: 3,018
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Hmmm, lets see....
1 desktop PC 1 2TB external drive 2 laptops 1 netbook 2 7" tablets 1 smart phone 1 wireless router/modem 2 smart TVs' (but only one connected to wifi) 1 GPS 3 or 4, or is it 5 flash drives floating around the place + a number of SD cards Oh, and don't forget the WiiU Then there's the stuff that is gathering dust like the 2 mobile dongles, 3 routers, the old Pentium 4 tower that my son abandoned when he was given the netbook...which he has now all but abandoned since having access to a tablet. Plus the various bits of electronic waste- old monitors, memory, hard drives, keyboards and mice, printers and scanners that are cheaper to replace than buy ink for etc. I try not to think about it and try not to try and keep up with the latest and greatest. If it does what I need it to do then that's good enough. The only reason I have a smart phone is the missus wanted it. Then she abandoned it after a week as "all too hard" because it kept making calls every time she touched the screen, so she pinched my workmans phone.
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. HERS- BFIII Wagon Gold, alloys, dual fuel, bullbar, big tow pack, trans cooler, fully rebuilt HD suspension, Clarion, alarmed, full 2 1/2" sports system, mint body MINE- AUII Forte Meteorite, dual fuel but otherwise bog stock. MINE- AUII Fairlane Sportsman Liquid Silver over meteorite,HIDs', Airhog, Eagle Leads, dual fuel, custom rear springs, BA slotted discs + a second one for spares . |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,910
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Considering what I do not much at all actually. None of its mine. The company I work for and their clients buy me laptops, pay for internet, etc. I have a dirty old desktop somewhere that hasn't been touched in 3yrs.
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XR5 Pilot
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Perth, Ex NSW
Posts: 1,455
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x1 LG Smart TV Runs to my NAS over WiFi
x1 Gaming Desktop x1 24" Screen x1 Old Gaming Desktop x2 Laptops (One work, One Wifey's) x2 iPad 3s x1 3TB Synology NAS (2x3TB Mirrored) x1 iPhone 5 x1 iPhone 5S x1 iPhone 3 x1 ASUS Dual Band/CPU WiFi/Gigabit Router. x1 Garmin GPS x1 Nintendo 3DS-XL x1 Nintendo DS x1 Sony PS4 x1 Nintendo Gamecube x1 Nintendo Wii x1 500GB HD not in use x1 1TB Ext. Hard Disk/Caddy x1 Belkin UPS ....I think that's it.
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
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What is NAS?
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. HERS- BFIII Wagon Gold, alloys, dual fuel, bullbar, big tow pack, trans cooler, fully rebuilt HD suspension, Clarion, alarmed, full 2 1/2" sports system, mint body MINE- AUII Forte Meteorite, dual fuel but otherwise bog stock. MINE- AUII Fairlane Sportsman Liquid Silver over meteorite,HIDs', Airhog, Eagle Leads, dual fuel, custom rear springs, BA slotted discs + a second one for spares . |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 3,910
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Network attached storage
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
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Ahh... so my 2TB external drive that holds all my "media" and is attached to my desktop PC but is accessible by the laptops and netbook would be considered NAS?
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. HERS- BFIII Wagon Gold, alloys, dual fuel, bullbar, big tow pack, trans cooler, fully rebuilt HD suspension, Clarion, alarmed, full 2 1/2" sports system, mint body MINE- AUII Forte Meteorite, dual fuel but otherwise bog stock. MINE- AUII Fairlane Sportsman Liquid Silver over meteorite,HIDs', Airhog, Eagle Leads, dual fuel, custom rear springs, BA slotted discs + a second one for spares . |
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Wirlankarra yanama
Join Date: May 2006
Location: God's Country
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Technically no, as a NAS is its own standalone device. If you turn off/reboot the desktop, then all access to the external drive is lost. A NAS can be configured to managed mutiple drives for example raid 1/3/5, quotas, specific user access and so on. However from a practical point of view the external drive does a similar thing in providing access to your data from other systems.
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BANNED
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 2,886
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16TB nas and 12 TB nas at home with cloud access for all my stuff.
200 Toshiba laptops mostly working 50 desktops mostly working A pallet of hard drives going back 20 years servers, tape units, blah blah over 200 LCD screens 15 in, 17 in, 19 in etc Anyone who needs anything Toshiba or Hp I have it... ![]() |
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
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. HERS- BFIII Wagon Gold, alloys, dual fuel, bullbar, big tow pack, trans cooler, fully rebuilt HD suspension, Clarion, alarmed, full 2 1/2" sports system, mint body MINE- AUII Forte Meteorite, dual fuel but otherwise bog stock. MINE- AUII Fairlane Sportsman Liquid Silver over meteorite,HIDs', Airhog, Eagle Leads, dual fuel, custom rear springs, BA slotted discs + a second one for spares . |
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Location: Sunny Downtown Wagga Wagga. NSW.
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I was going to add to this conversation but I'm a Truck Driver and have trouble getting past 10 !
(erm... 1...many....lots!)
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Chairman & Administrator
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Location: 1975
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1 x Full tower desktop (acts as a file and media server) with 5Tb storage
3 x Shuttle XPC's 2 Tb NAS 1 x 11" Vaio laptop 3 x Toughbooks 1 x iPad 1 x Samsung Galaxy Tab 1 x A3 and 1 x A4 scanners 1 Colour Laser Printer, 1 x Mono Laser Printer, 1 x A3 & 1 x A4 inkjet printers .. and we wonder why we are on AFF so much of the time Cheers Russ
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Adapt or perish...
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dip!@#$
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1 x 24" all in one
1 x Wifi printer 1 x 1TB portable HDD (used for movies) 1 x Note 3 1 x Xperia Z1 2 x Galaxy S2 1 x X360 1 x Wii U 1 x 3DS Soon to add an iPad mini for mini me.
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Melb north
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Considering theres only 3 in our household and one techno geek that is savvy with all the electronics (thats not me) ,we have a considerable amount of geek stuff, can anyone say daisy chained power boards ;).
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XR5 Pilot
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Perth, Ex NSW
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lol... good question.. Honesly- this is the first time I've really thought about it.. I read through the post after I finished typing, sat back and said to myself "Damn... how did I manage to compile so much tech!?" ...A lot of it just integrates into your life though right? The NAS just sits and hides...I forget it's there. The TV, PS and the Wii are in the entertainment unit and the PC sits in the study, GPS in the car and the 3DS-XL on the bedside table or couch... It's still a fair bit though!
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Starter Motor
Join Date: Jun 2014
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Take over the linen cupboard to hide all the networking gear, patch panels, NAS's, router, CCTV, etc. I'd hate to look at all that crap now
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VFII SS UTE
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Central Coast
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including xbox, media players, ps3, ect ect.
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When in doubt, GAS IT!!
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lower Eyre Peninsula, SA
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Cool!, I might have to go get another HDD and do just that. The current one doubles as the system back up as well so I'd like to leave it where it is.
Cheers Burnz, this old dinosaur just learned something new.
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. HERS- BFIII Wagon Gold, alloys, dual fuel, bullbar, big tow pack, trans cooler, fully rebuilt HD suspension, Clarion, alarmed, full 2 1/2" sports system, mint body MINE- AUII Forte Meteorite, dual fuel but otherwise bog stock. MINE- AUII Fairlane Sportsman Liquid Silver over meteorite,HIDs', Airhog, Eagle Leads, dual fuel, custom rear springs, BA slotted discs + a second one for spares . |
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Regular Member
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Melbourne
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Working in IT and making it a hobby of mine to upgrde and overclock my gear, I can honestly say I have well over 25 items which I cannot be bothered to list... sorry!
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Regular Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 113
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Ill join in.
60" Plasma 3D smart tv 32" lcd smart tv 42" plain old pov spec plasma Nas raid 5, 6tb Dell 17" XPS laptop HTPC (on 42" tv) 3D bluray and DLNA player 2 x gaming pcs, same everything but cpu (1xquad core and 1x6 core) 27" and 24" monitors on one 24" on the other 2 x Nexus 7 tablets POS iphone 4 ( wifes) htc android phone Wii and a ps one ( some games you just cant get on anything else ) 7.1 dual zone smart amp UPS runs tv cabinet ![]() 12ru cabinet ^ run on a small ups and a billion modem router couple of small 5 and 8 port switchs harmony remote about 5-10 external hdd's for back up of everything from pc to nas. My wife used to think i spent too much money on things like pc's etc until she went back to work trying to use word or even just surfing then web took ages - she had a much greater appreciation for what we had at home. Same for arguing about the tv setup - why do we need that , how much was this etc - until i got a harmony remote, She stopped whinging pretty quickly. |
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Lacking Imagination
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: In The Global Collective
Posts: 3,909
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4x Pioneer 50" Plasma's
2x Samsung 42" LED TV's 3x File Servers (Each with 96TB) 1x Intel Xeon 6 Core VMWare ESXi Host 1x i7 Gaming Machine (Intel i7, 8x SSDs in RAID, NVidia 780ti, 64Gb Ram) 1x Custom i7 HTPC 6x Jailbroken Apple TVs 4x iPad Mini's 2x Nexus 7 Tablets 2x Samsung SGSIV 4G 1x Samsung SGSIII 4G 1x iPhone 5s 1x HTC One 1x Control4 HC800 6x Control4 HC250 3x Control4 8 Zone Power Amps 2x Control4 16x16 Matrix Switch 6x Control4 7 Inch Touchscreens with Camera 4x 48 Port Cisco 3750 PoE Switches 2x Enterasys 24 Port Gigabit Switches 8x 48 Port Patch Panels with Cat6 Wiring throughout house for Data an Cat5e for Automation Control Cabling (Cheaper lol) 1x Cisco 2911 Router 2x Denon AVR-X4000 Network Receivers 8x ADTran BlueSocket 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz WiFi Access Points 2x Cisco 1242 WiFi Access Points 6x HP DV6 Laptops (16GB, GT630m, 500GB SSD) 1x TPG ADSL2+ Connection 1x Optus Cable 100Mbit Unmetered Connection Most Hardware is installed and running bar some Control4 gear (You know the saying, the Plumbers taps leak, and so my home is never finished as I am automating other peoples houses lol) Last edited by FAT245; 15-07-2014 at 11:12 PM. Reason: Laptop Specs |
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Formerly wheelyking4x4x4
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Dalby QLD
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I think we're pretty basic, mostly old stuff
2 38" tv's ps1, ps2, ps3 2 blu ray players old sony VCR (remember those?) xperia z1 tab 2 10.1 gba sp desktop with 1tb storage 32gb usb flash billion modem/router just got a new mono laser printer ($45!!) old canon inkjet (just kept for the scanner) panasonic digital camera
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Eat my Brake Dust
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: In the back with Miss Alba
Posts: 985
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Primary Gaming machine (Blitzwing):
Windows 8.1 Pro Intel Core i5-4670 8Gb RAM nVidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti Samsung 51" Plasma 3D TV Logitec wireless keyboard & mouse Microsoft Xbox controllers x2 Creative Inspire T7900 7.1 Secondary Gaming machine (Kickback): Windows 7 Home Premium Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 6Gb RAM nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS 19" Dell monitor (On KVM switch) Dell keyborad (On KVM switch) Microsoft Basic Mouse (On KVM switch) Creative Inspire T10 2.0 (On KVM switch) Work (Laserbeak): Dell Optiplex 745 Windows Vista Home Premium Intel Core 2 Duo 6400 5Gb RAM Intel Q965 Exrpess (Onbord Video) 19" Dell monitor (On KVM switch) Dell keyborad (On KVM switch) Microsoft Basic Mouse (On KVM switch) Creative Inspire T10 2.0 (On KVM switch) Experimenting: Dell Optiplex GX520 no OS as its in use at the moment can't remember the internals 19" Dell monitor (On KVM switch) Dell keyborad (On KVM switch) Microsoft Basic Mouse (On KVM switch) Creative Inspire T10 2.0 (On KVM switch) KVM Switch: Belkin SOHO Network: Netgear 4-port modem/router Netgear 5-port switch Netgear NAS 1.5tb storage currently (got a 2tb drive yet to be installed) Tablet (Soundwave): Microsoft Surface RT Phone: HTC Wildfire S Printer: Lexmark X4550 wireless printer MP3 Player: Creative Nomad II 32Mb GPS: Tom Tom One XL Digital Camera: Nikon Coolpix Cannon EOS 600D And enough parts to build 2, possibly 3 older computers
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R51 Pathy, 91 Jayco Swan
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Mackay, QLD
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ummm. Asus laptop core I5, and some other stuff that was on the sticker I ripped off.
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