Recent content by Fish4Fun

Thiggins/Claykin, Thanks for the replies. Part of the problem was fixed by upgrading the work stations to modern OSs and employing "Content Advisor" in Win 7. The rest of the problem was solved by an employee meeting. Sometimes "low tech" solutions can work better than "high-tech". I have...

Summit, Thanks for the reply. I would assume if I block port 80 that no PCs will have access to sites other than the defined exceptions; unfortuneatly I need other PCs on the network to have unrestricted access. For the short-term I have simply removed shortcuts to iexplorer on the two PCs...

I have a small business that employees some younger folks who simply cannot help but play on the internet constantly. Firing them is a last resort solution. They have access to two general purpose cash register PCs that need to use the internet for two websites, I would like to block access to...

thiggins, Thanks. The SAMSUNG EcoGreen F2 HD154UI 1.5TB is on the recommended list, something I am glad I checked. In theory it is fairly "cool". While I will use this NAS for document back-up, the bulk of the storage is media and media streaming, so should be mostly large continguous files...

Wow. I would have expected someone here to have an opinion (good or bad) on large capacity drives, LOL I spent some time looking at the 500GB and 750GB drives, and to be fair the negative reviews on them are statistically similar to the 1TB and 1.5TB reviews. Oddly, this is somewhat...

I am setting up a new NAS. I have had a Terastation setup as a 1.5TB Raid5 for several years, but it is aging and nearly full. I would love to populate a new DS409 with 1.5TB or 2TB drives, but the failure rate on the high capacity drives I have been looking at seem VERY HIGH! Online reviews...

Perfect. Thank you. I was fairly certain all I needed to upgrade was my switch, but I could not find a clear answer, until now :-) I just wanted to make sure. With Warm Regards, Fish

My first PC was a 4 bit machine. I was drug kicking and screaming from DOS to WIN95 (what a mistake, should have waited for WIN2K!). I understand, and have implemented firmware based embedded systems using various parallel/serial half-duplex and full duplex protocols. NONE of this has helped...