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Dang It

harleyman said:
Wouldn't you need a motherboard with two ethernet jacks for that?
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As others have pointed out a Switch/Router will work or if you have a spare slot you can add a PCI NIC for $20.00 and you will get top speed. I love my NAS I can sync my laptop at work in less than 15 min, I am syncing a 500 GIG drive (about 22 GIG of data) which would take 6+hours through a USB 2 port.

This stuff has come a longg way in the past 2 years and set-up properly it is almost effortless. Although I still have a few users who "Fook" it up regularly...lol
 
Lionheart said:
Mine doesnt take too long. I would have thought it would, but it doesnt.
Bill
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What Defrag program do you use Bill? I've been using the stock MS defrag, and sometimes I'll use MyDefrag-v4.2.4. Both seem to run at about the same speed... not very fast. And I've had to run MyDefrag twice just to do a complete job.
 
GT182 said:
What Defrag program do you use Bill? I've been using the stock MS defrag, and sometimes I'll use MyDefrag-v4.2.4. Both seem to run at about the same speed... not very fast. And I've had to run MyDefrag twice just to do a complete job.
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IO Bits is very good, the trick is to set it to do a defrag automatically when the system is not in use, so it runs regularly and it does not have to work as hard each time. I have mine to set to run every 3 days and it mostly defrags 3 1 TB drives in less than an hour overnight.
 
Gary, I use stock Defrag also.

I'll have to check that one out Mike.

You're on it Marlin. The secret is to defrag 'alot' so it only takes about 15 min's. Once a week is awesome if you can pin yourself down to making that happen. (every 3 days is even better....! ).



Bill
 
I have been using IOBIT Smart defragg for several years now...

I put it on all my customers computers too..Along with CCleaner and Secunia PSI.


One word of advice...On defragging...To much and to often is not good on the platters.... Once a week is fine.... I have killed several drives over defragging them...
 
Thanks on the IObit recommend guys.

Mike, I don't leave my computer on 24/7 so a defrag in the middle of the night is out for me. I usually set an Antivirus scan for early morning on Fridays, after I start it up for the day, and I'm out for my morning coffee at WaWa. I'll just set a time for a defrag for a day other than that.

Like Mason says, once a week is ok... too many are not so good.

Boy, AVG doesn't like IObit does it. LOL

Just saw this looking around...... Transfer/Clone & Backup - http://www.spotmau.com/products/package/full_datatransfer.htm?gclid=CNH1wsHGpp8CFVw55QodcEOw1Q

Has anyone used that?
 
I probably should have gone into more detail, I have my system set to defrag every 3 days but it alternates drives, I do my system drive on Monday night, the Media Drive on Wed and the Game Drive on Sat, I also set the advanced setting to only defrag if the file fragmentation is more than 10% so it does not actually do a full pass all that often.

The whole System Maintiance process is very different for everyone depending on how you use your systen, I personally never shut my system down, but I do have the power scheme set to put it in sleep mode after 1 hour so it is not buring up juice when not in action blasting Kahak and Xenon...lol

You need to play around a bit to figure out what works best for you, but the key is to do something on a regular basis that way it is not a weekend project to defrag and clean up a drive.
 
I set mine at bed time to defragg all drives and shut my pooter down on completion...


After a big reinstall I do the full optimized deal, that takes hours . then I touch that only once every two weeks, and do a normal defragg inbetween...

The full one(bottom drop down) moves all the files back to the outer most part of the platter for faster read/ write times....
 
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