Specs for PC occasionally used for video editing with SVP.

[Fabio Mereghetti]

[John Rofrano] “Don’t forget to calibrate them with a hardware calibrator…”
Ages ago I bought an Eye one display. I know there are better devices but being just an amateur I think that’s just OK.

About the monitor, looking at the Asus site I saw the PB248Q. I can find it for 278€ and I think it would be enough for me.

[John Rofrano] “I drink a glass or red wine every day. Strictly to help my cholesterol you understand.(wink, wink)”

I do, I do…
A glass a day is what the doctor ordered…
In that family dinner I mentioned a few posts above, my wife and I, had the “duty” to taste – and test (pun intended) three different reds we bought in the morning in the city (village) of Gattinara in Piemonte as we are looking to find some red table wine for everyday use in the cold seasons. (We have already found a white one some years ago)
We usually do this kind of tests blindly (in italiano si chiama “doppio cieco”): at first I prepare three glasses, each one marked with a differently colored stripe around its stem and write down in secret the links between color and wine name. Then, after I’m gone out of view, the wife does her tasting and secretly writes down her judgement. Then she will change (or not) the colors at her will and I will re-enter the stage and do my tasting and write down my score. Then we check the two rankings one against the other. That night it came out that they matched perfectly!
Cin, cin, salute!

[Fabio Mereghetti]

I’m thinking to put a NAS in my system but I would like to use it as the common data repository (data server) for all the PCs of my LAN (a single one for home and work) without having to keep one PC switched on all the time (like now).

Which device and configuration would you suggest?

Thanks.

[John Rofrano]

[fabio mereghetti] “We usually do this kind of tests blindly (in italiano si chiama “doppio cieco”): at first I prepare three glasses, each one marked with a differently colored stripe around its stem and write down in secret the links between color and wine name. Then, after I’m gone out of view, the wife does her tasting and secretly writes down her judgement. Then she will change (or not) the colors at her will and I will re-enter the stage and do my tasting and write down my score. Then we check the two rankings one against the other. That night it came out that they matched perfectly!”

Wow, you sure are serious about selecting wines. I love it! My wife and I try new wines simply by buying bottle and seeing if we like it but nothing like double-blind taste testing. wow! 😀

[fabio mereghetti] “Cin, cin, salute!”

I haven’t heard someone say “cin, cin” in quite some time and it brought back memories of when my beloved parents came back from their vacation in Italy in 1966. No one in my household had ever used that term until they came back and then every time they raised a glass they would say “cin, cin”. Gosh I miss them (especially around the holidays) but thanks for brining back that memory. It put a smile on my face.

~jr

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[John Rofrano]

[fabio mereghetti] “Which device and configuration would you suggest?”

We’ve had one for years and the family loves it. It’s so great to have on-line storage without needing someone to turn on their PC.

I currently have a Buffalo LinkStation. When anyone takes pictures I tell them to put them out on the LinkStation so we can all see them. It works great. I had a 500GB one that latest about 5 years of continuous use until the fan died. I now have a 2TB version and they no longer even have a fan so they are dead quiet. I keep it next to my router in the back of my desk. I’ve been really impressed with Buffalo quality.

The LinkStation is also a DLNA server so it can serve up my video, images, and audio files as well from any compliant DLNA client. It also serves up my audio files to iTunes so it’s quite a nice little unit.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Fabio Mereghetti]

[John Rofrano] “Wow, you sure are serious about selecting wines.”

We are not “connoisseurs”, we did it mostly for fun. We usually do that also with olive oil, cheese (we recently discovered a “gorgonzola” “da leccarsi i baffi!”) and so on. We know that you can’t buy wine, beer and food just by the name on the label of by some review.

[John Rofrano] ” It put a smile on my face.”

I’m glad that something I did had that effect on you and I thank you for sharing with me your feelings about it. Nice.

I lost my father in law on last march and his family put on his grave a picture I took some years ago and guess what he is doing in it?
He is holding his glass of wine towards the camera ready for a toast and he surely used those words.

Thank you again for your help.

[Fabio Mereghetti]

[John Rofrano] “I now have a 2TB version and they no longer even have a fan so they are dead quiet.”

Is your Linkstation the 210?
I asked Buffalo and they said to me that only the 210 is fanless while all the others have fan(s).
They also said that all their NASs have SATA II ports and not to expect speed over 100 GB/s (Bytes, non bits) in read and the half in write, even with a gigabit direct network connection: is that OK?

I see I can find the LS220DE-EU (2 bays) for 70€ and I’m thinking to buy that one. https://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/linkstation-220

Thank you.

fabio

[Fabio Mereghetti]

Well, I got all the pieces on Xmas eve and I started building the new PC. Everything worked OK until I tried to install the new WD black HDD (3TB). When I go to disk management in W7-64SP1 and I try to initialize the drive I get a “Funzione non corretta” message both with GPT or MBR. If I click on “offline” I get a “Disco non pronto”.
I downloaded the tool Data safeguard from WD and the drive doesn’t pass any test. I tried to put it in my old PC (Asus A8V) but I’m even getting a “hardware failure” message during post and the PC won’t even see the boot drive (on the other sata port as the new one).

I’m afraid it has arrived already dead: do you know of any other thing I could try before asking the seller to send me another one?

Thanks.

[John Rofrano]

The worst thing about building a new PC is dead hardware. I had it happen with a video card once. Very frustrating. It is very possible that the drive is dead and I would just send it back. With the Christmas shipping rush it probably got dropped more than a few times. 🙁

~jr

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