I have had a Linksys EA9500 router feeding the house for a few years. I have a ~2500 square foot 2-story house plus basement that it feeds from the 1st floor. I also currently have a couple of MoCA 2.5 adapters (1 behind the router and cable modem and the other in my upstairs office) that...
I got my son a 2018 Acer Gaming Laptop for Christmas last year. Now my other kid is saving for one as well and I saw a newer 2019 version listed on the Acer and Best Buy websites. Not looking for the super top-end again, but good bang for the buck. From what it looks like the 2019 has a...
Just to follow up, I did wind up getting that 3.5" enclosure for the Red drive. Copied everything over and seems to be running great. And actually quite a bit faster transfer rates per AJA and Blackmagic speed tests. The 2.5" Passport was getting around 85 MB/s and this 3.5" Red in the...
Thanks for the replies. I believe both drives are 5400 RPM. Maybe more cache on one? Not sure. Mainly looking for reliability and transfer rate performance of one over the other (if one actually is faster via real use).
I have a Mac Mini that has an external 2 TB drive that I would like to upgrade to a 4TB. I also have a WD Red 4TB drive that I pulled from another system (just over a year old).
Since it should be stationary on my desk, which drive would be better to use as external storage for my music and...
Thanks for the comments. Yeah, I think per the specs this should be way better than that old Alpha. Found some reviews and looks like cooling may be a concern, but supposedly I can re-apply better thermal paste to cool a lot. Hopefully he wants it :)
I bought this Acer Nitro gaming laptop for my son for Christmas. Was on sale at Best Buy for $600 on black friday. He currently uses a little Alienware Alpha 1st gen box plugged into a TV for gaming. Just want to see if anyone has this particular Nitro laptop and if it's noticeably fast or if...
What about the drive format? Should I go with NTFS or ExFAT? If possible, I would like to be able to disconnect it if I have a massive data transfer or need to connect it directly to a computer. I have both Mac and PC in the house.
Are you saying you tested your HP laptop over the network with the 750GB USB drive connected directly to the EA9500 router? Or is that the speed you get with the USB drive connected to you laptop?
My scores were when I was testing AJA from my MacBook but the drive was attached to a different...
Thanks for the replies. The drive I have is an old 500GB 2.5" drive pulled from a Mac Mini housed within a USB3 caddy. When I tested the througput wirelessly via my 2017 MacBook and using AJA benchmark, that 500GB drive had a write/read of 9MB/s and 12MB/s (respectively).
Now, I also have a...
I'd like to use one of the USB3 ports to connect an external drive to my Linksys EA9500 router. I had an old drive and the throughput stinks. I was looking at a USB3 WD Passport and WD My Book. Is one really better than the other for this purpose? I'd like to have reasonably fast read/write...
From the searches I've done, it seems like you need a PC to facilitate backing up any kind of a hard drive (USB or NAS) that is directly connected to a router to a redundant cloud drive or service out there on the internet. Seems slow having to send the data through the router and back out to...
I'm sure they would rather have the PS4 Pro, but looks like it's $400 vs $225 (after factoring the gift card) for the PS4 Slim :)
Probably ok just to have "only" the Xbox One system though. In my eyes, it's like iOS vs Android...pick whichever ecosystem you prefer.
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