Gadgetory

so today we're going to take a look at how you can build your very own Windows 8 get own apps with flexibility ladies and gentlemen welcome back to tech yet city this is brian coming back to you guys today with a little vlog sort of detailing what i'm doing around my house at the moment and recently i have a big need for an ass and I thought well can I do it with all the gear that I have here and the answer is yes and it works very well but if you guys want to do this at your home what you will need is a dedicated PC and then you'll also obviously need that dedicated PC hooked into a router on the network and also I've got Windows 8 installed so it's very easy to do it I didn't have to reinstall anything I just chopped and changed pcs but anyway that being said let's get on with it so it's that time in my life where I'm just finding myself in need of a Nassau R a network attached storage now the reason for this is that I'm using my 5820k rig for editing and gaming but the problem is is that I'm just running out of space since games are just so big nowadays like 50 gig and install my SSDs are just running out of space and I got no space for editing so I'm going to be using the one terabyte from upstairs on my rig there and using that as a dedicated drive for games and then pulling out that 2 terabyte from this computer and putting it in my home theater PC which is going to become my new nass so there's a good thing about this is that the one sitting on top is a Pentium 3250 I think so as well I'm going to be underclocking it under vaulting it and so on idle it should use next to no power may be I'm hoping for like 20 watts maybe even less and the PC under that since it wasn't getting used that's going to become my new home theater PC since you really don't need much to run a home theater PC since it's just running mp4s so anyway let's get all this set up and just like that our $40 PC is now the new home theater PC so now we are going to get on to this little bad boy here and we're going to put it all the way over here I guess here's the final product it's just two hard drives connected to a hatch 81m mini ATX board with a 3250 with 4 gigabytes of ddr3 memory there so we're just going to do some little bit of advanced sharing on these drives and put it on the homegroup and then we shall also extremely biles don't have a tripod mount on your webcam well that's easily fixed ladies and gentlemen with duct tape so at the end of the day I now have a kick-ass nest with three terabytes of storage also the best thing about this is I can now access files from upstairs and copy them to the nest and easily access the downstairs and vice versa so very convenient and also the server itself probably uses up around about 40 watts on idle or just in process and when the hard drive switch off uses up a little bit less as you saw there I was under vaulting the CPU and the RAM to save a bit more power since this thing is always going to be on all the time now and there's probably some questions out there what about why didn't you use Linux I just couldn't be bothered CBF I guess that's just the Aussie and me I'm sure Linux has very good options there for nice solutions I just already had Windows 8 on there so I just decided to use that and it was very easy to do and I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who are very comfortable with Windows 8 so I guess this guide is like a Windows 8 flexible nass and it works very well now there's also probably are people wondering why didn't I use a raid 1 or raid 5 and now me personally I've always been the type to just copy can't live without files to two different drives if I really need them also but as it stands a lot of the files on those drives I could live without if I lost them so that's just about it for how I backup things but I've usually got two drives just running normally no need to raid them that's just how I use my Nass in a home environment so anyway guys that's about it for today if you have any questions then be sure to drop a comment in the comment section below and if you haven't already hit that like button and subscribe to tech yes City if you're not already subscribe and I'll be coming back to you guys with more tech news and use face out for now but that's just so ghetto ghetto ghetto ghetto ghetto ghetto