i dumped only 19.54 into a RAID card, gonna try and build a nas eventually

That's cheap for a quality RAID/HBA card. Gather its last generation SAS 6GB or even just sata?

I build my new PC 2 weeks ago. I found everything xd

Noice

I'm 90% sure I overpaid on some parts

But my old PC is dying so I consider it justified

I would really like to get a 3060 TI some day

It would be nice

But by the time I can afford that

It will be the old one

I could afford it but justifying replacing my perfectly fine GPU is hard

Yeah

I just recently upgraded my GPU and I got a lot of expenses coming up so

I have a 1660 Super

Nice

Another thing about upgrading my GPU is my monitors are 1080 144hz

So don’t think I would be able to push the performance of a 3060

I just have a 1050 Ti

But I only have one monitor so it works

I bought a 1660 for the time being

Until the 3080 is back in stock wt reasonable prices

Currently have a gtx 1660 and a gtx 760 in my system

I guess I could do that

The one I took out is a 1030

I have a few 1050ti's

Even "better" ! Dell PERC 5/i! Best SAS 3Gb/s RAID card 2006 has to offer XD

It has 8 ports, supports raid 10, all i needed

I just got it because it was the cheapest one that came with the cables, i will probably upgrade it if i upgrade beyond gigabit for my home network

If you mean 8 physical ports, being able to handle 32 drives at full (3 GB) isn't bad.

no, 2 sff-idfk ports, 4 drive per port

is there a good resource on all the sff-xxxx ports?

althought it can probably do more with a SAS expander

i only have a single drive in it now, so all its doing is adding 512mb ddr2 cache

writeback and read ahead

i also got an Oracle F40 Flash Accelerator, that i will use for caching, once i have a proper server motherboard

rn i'm just using some ancient g41 core 2 duo board, with only 1 pcie slot

anyone here ever heard of powerline Ethernet adapters?

Yep, never tried em tho

they'd be a possible option if 1. you don't/can't run an ethernet cable and 2. there is too much interference for wifi to work right

like if your neighbor uses a 60s microwave that completely nukes the 2.4ghz spectrum

or if it is a high density area and the wifi spectrum is overcrowded