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You just going on your own?
I can't decide if i'd like going on a holiday on my own or not. I'm a very independant person who's happy to be alone with just his thoughts and experiences, but i'm not sure if travelling alone would be a step too far.
I've travelled on my own before because I had a random week off and was offered cheap flights to the USA. People on the plane seemed amazed at the prospect of someone travelling on their own when I spoke to them.
I did what I wanted when I wanted, met hot chicks in the backpackers hostel and had nights out with the random people there and had a great time.
You just going on your own?
Yea, it's too short notice for my friends and/or too expensive. My brother stays in Cambodia so I'll meet up with him at some point.
I wanted a good leak proof thermos flask to take coffee to work. Got myself a Contigo West Loop Autoseal. It works really well. It's the first day of using it and I made myself a latte this morning. I've been sipping it all morning and it is still hot!
Been buying a few bits recently...
Got sick of running out of USB's on the iMac, so bought a 7 port USB3.0 hub. Forgive the cabling, I've got some sticky pads and velcro straps on order, I plan on burying all of it under the desk
USB3.0 External Caddy for a 2.0TB drive I had lying around.
10/100/1000 8 port Netgear switch, didn't need 8 ports but 4/5 would have been pushing it and it gives me some spares, so for a few quid extra, why not.
4 x 3TB Western Digital Red NAS drives.
Fitted this to my Netgear ReadyNAS 104 (purchased a couple of months ago) last night, its building away at the minute
Got sick of running out of USB's on the iMac, so bought a 7 port USB3.0 hub. Forgive the cabling, I've got some sticky pads and velcro straps on order, I plan on burying all of it under the desk
USB3.0 External Caddy for a 2.0TB drive I had lying around.
10/100/1000 8 port Netgear switch, didn't need 8 ports but 4/5 would have been pushing it and it gives me some spares, so for a few quid extra, why not.
4 x 3TB Western Digital Red NAS drives.
Fitted this to my Netgear ReadyNAS 104 (purchased a couple of months ago) last night, its building away at the minute
I'm waiting for the 3TB's to come out around 70 quid as I also need 4 for my ReadyNAS - the cheapest I've seen them is around 80 quid which I think is a little expensive considering as they are still blaming the earthquake on higher storage costs.
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Really? I couldn't find them for less than £107 to be honest and I had run out of space so it was time to bite the bullet
- The cheapest I ever saw them was £99 from the Rainforest but I managed to agree a nice price from an OcUK member of staff beating the £107 Difference with the NAS drives is that they are built for a NAS purpose, faster transfer speeds and designed to be at full speed 24/7
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Really? I couldn't find them for less than £107 to be honest and I had run out of space so it was time to bite the bullet
Difference with the NAS drives is that they are built for a NAS purpose, faster transfer speeds and designed to be at full speed 24/7
I honestly don't think the WD Reds are worth the extra over a 3TB Toshiba or Seagate. I've now had two DOA's and one fail after a week, all in a HP Microserver.
Bad batch?
I've only had 2 WD drives fail on me in 10 years and both were replaced very quickly. 160GB Sata's (back when 160GB was 'big'
)I've had Seagate's fail on me though? So it's swings and roundabouts.
I went for the extra speed they give when consistently writing data and a lot of people rating them on the net.
The ones around 80 quid were actually 87 quid with a voucher. My NAS won't be on 24/7 - it's more archival than retrieval.
And yes how dare they have earthquakes! In all seriousness I think a lot of storage vendors are like the energy companies - when there is a rise they quickly put the prices up but when the prices are lower they don't put them down.
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And yes how dare they have earthquakes! In all seriousness I think a lot of storage vendors are like the energy companies - when there is a rise they quickly put the prices up but when the prices are lower they don't put them down.
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Yep, the whole situation was a bit ridiculous to be honest. But on the flip side we had awesome HDD prices for a long time
I'm jealous. I'm not going to get infinity until next year. Even worse as my connection has been reduced
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I have BT infinity, but older router....think i can get the newer one somehow....?
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New CPU Cooler for the wife , and Four Fans for me , Oh and a Xonar DGX PCIE Sound Card
, Oh and a Xonar DGX PCIE Sound Card 
Have a look at post 100 about the £45:
http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/HomeHub-5/td-p/1041378/page/10
I've been lucky getting it as they've just now starting sending them out with new orders. I be posting about it in the BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion thread when it's up and running.
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