They are all CMR, SMR drives are terrible for NAS. Red just means they are meant for NAS use. Gold drives are their enterprise/data center drives. I bought them in the EasyStore drives because they are much cheaper that way. I previously thought they were all Red drives until I printed out the...
I have 16x WD 8TB drives that I am upgrading in my NAS. These are mostly shucked from easystore external drives, and are a mix of Red and Gold Helium drives. I will include the enclosure if you want them.
Most of the drives have around 64,000 hours, but saw very low use as a Plex media server...
Just to give you another option, the one below is what I got for my NAS, which allowed me 13 drives with an ICY dock 3-into-5 adapter.
DIYPC D780-BK Black SECC ATX Full Tower Computer Case
Another option is the one I am upgrading to with 18 drives...
I have a Dell 1409X that I used for this same purpose, had some great backyard movie nights on a 12' inflatable screen. The one I have was a replacement from insurance after the original was stolen. It has been barely used (less than 20 hours) since I got it 6 years ago. Displayed HD movies no...
I just have to say that I am a bit surprised at the "outrage" at the performance numbers. Real-time ray tracing has been the holy grail of rendering since the 90s. The fact that we have this at all in a package that fits an everymans computer at a relatively reasonable price point is absolutely...
Lots of the ones to convert a usb device to PS/2, but the ones to convert a PS/2 to USB were always kinda tough to get to work right. I am sure I have one more left that converts a PS/2 keyboard and mouse to USB, but like I said I wouldn't trust it.
I am cleaning out my parts closet a bit more, and have a bunch of cables and adapters available for the cost of shipping them. Especially for older systems using serial, parallel, and ps/2 adapters, I have a bunch.
Power cables, ethernet cables, vga/dvi/hdmi, power adapters of all kinds. Floppy...