Re: NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I'm planning on using it for storage for my pictures. or maybe I should dedicate it to business. WOW! What an idea. On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 12:23 PM Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > If all you want is an extra drive for your PC then just get an extra drive. > How much data/files are you

Re: NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
You can share storage from the nuc to another device over the network, same way as if you went and bought a synology/qnap nas or other with cifs/nfs. It's a full pc, but you could just install freenas or like on it and use it as a storage array as well easy enough. Oddly I saw that someone was

Re: NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Bob Elzer via PLUG-discuss
If all you want is an extra drive for your PC then just get an extra drive. How much data/files are you planning to put on this SSD ? The closer an SSD gets to being full, the faster it starts wearing out. If you are going to make it a Nas, I would put a bigger drive in it.. think of the nuc as a

Re: NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
so that is a 2 port ASmedia controller. so you can connect two conventional data drives to the NUC, I hit eBay and am fascinated by what I am finding for Mini PCIe expansion. https://www.ebay.com/b/Disk-Controllers-RAID-Cards-for-Mini-PCI-Express/90715/bn_2785152 On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 7:52 AM

Re: NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I don't get it. What does it do? On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:48 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > Now this is an interesting Idea, > https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-ASMedia-Mining-Adding-Devices/dp/B00W8XWPIW > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 7:41 AM Stephen Partington > wrote: >> >>

Re: NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
NAS? I'll wait until I get the stuff and then you can tell me how. I got more memory and a 240GB SSD On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 10:41 AM Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote: > > A Nuc is a full-on computer. >

Re: NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Now this is an interesting Idea, https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-ASMedia-Mining-Adding-Devices/dp/B00W8XWPIW On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 7:41 AM Stephen Partington wrote: > A Nuc is a full-on computer. > https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/71484/intel-nuc-kit-dccp847dye.html > > You

Re: NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
A Nuc is a full-on computer. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/71484/intel-nuc-kit-dccp847dye.html You might have better results turning it into a small NAS device. On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 6:21 AM Michael via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > My father

NUC as new drive?

2020-04-30 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
My father gave me an old NUC (DCCP847DYE) that needed an SSD. I I ordered the SSD yesterday and am awaiting it now and I was hoping to just use the NUC as an external USB drive. Is it as simple as connecting the two computers with a USB cord? or will I have to use an ethernet cable? --