Well I had to put down my old PC. PS windows 10 blows.

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Kentg

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This may be a bit long. After I installed a new SSD and extra internal HD last year in my I3 powered Dell it decided to take a massive dump on me a couple weeks ago. It had been running fine and recording my 3 HIK 4MP cams fine. I was recording to a external Seagate back up drive via USB 3.0 located in a heavy gun safe next to my desk. The machine had a fit and in the middle of the night reverted to a restore point from a year ago switching to the operating system on a WD Black HD I had installed when my OEM HD was going bad last summer/fall. First and only time I have ever had a HD go bad. It was a Barracuda that came in the Dell. After it did what it did it still saw the SSD but with no drive letter. It reverted to the WD black HD I had initially put in to replace the OEM HD using a mirror of the bad one I had created with Marcum reflect.

I decided I'm due for an upgrade and said the hell with it and ordered a new i7 XPS with win 10. I effing HATE win 10. I decided I would rather send this win 10 POS back and try to revive my old one but I didn't realize that I could have gotten it with Win 7 professional as well. The win 7 XPS with i7 processor is ordered and when it gets here I will be sending this POS back.

So while I was at it I found my external 4T Seagate BU was screwed up and couldn't retrieve my back up and ended up formatting it. Now its blank without any of the Seagate software on it. This went bad. I was lucky enough to find a backup with my pics and docs and other stuff like quicken on one of the 2 other hard drives I had in the machine in addition to the SSD that WAS running the op system. I'm thankful I got to find all my pics etc and it was only a couple weeks old so not a lot lost onto the abyss.

It made me reconsider my options and what to use to back up and store data on.

So I was looking and found that WD makes the "My Cloud" personal NAS unit which looks like what is a good choice for me just as a home user. Not terribly expensive. 4T of storage and its on my network via my Netgear Nighthawk router and I will park it back in the safe where the Seagate HD was. When I get the new PC I'm going to get the old one reloaded with win 7 on the SSD and then format the other 1T WD Black HD and put in the new one as a location to record my cam recordings. I only record motion not continuous.

I was curious if anyone else has had any experience with this WD personal NAS? I'm also not sure if I can record to the NAS for cam clips as well as the WD black internal as well. Or just use the personal NAS for backing up my PC. My goal is to keep my PC backup and camera clips on the NAS with as close to real time data as possible. Just in case someone burgled my and got to the computer and grabbed it I would still have data and clips on the NAS in the safe.

I suppose some of these questions will be answered when I dig into this in a few days when the new PC shows and I start to set it up. I hate having to reinstall all of the software like BI, Quicken, etc. Reloading my pictures, docs, favorites and all the rest. It will take a week of tweaking to get it back to where I like it. Yuk.

Any suggestions on what I plan? Workable? Or way off track?
 
I looked at it a bit and I'm not impressed. Plus I'm not sure if it will fix the browser as well. The "edge" browser sucks ass. Nope I'm going to go the Windows 7 route. I have not talked to a single person who has anything good to say about 10.
I mean it's a pretty clear indication of how many of us like 7 that Dell still offers it.
 
Kentg said:
I looked at it a bit and I'm not impressed. Plus I'm not sure if it will fix the browser as well. The "edge" browser sucks ass. Nope I'm going to go the Windows 7 route. I have not talked to a single person who has anything good to say about 10.
I mean it's a pretty clear indication of how many of us like 7 that Dell still offers it.
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Win 10 includes internet explorer...lots of folks here running 10 and happy. My office staff can't even tell the difference once classic shell is installed...
 
Kentg said:
I looked at it a bit and I'm not impressed. Plus I'm not sure if it will fix the browser as well. The "edge" browser sucks ass. Nope I'm going to go the Windows 7 route. I have not talked to a single person who has anything good to say about 10.
I mean it's a pretty clear indication of how many of us like 7 that Dell still offers it.
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This is nonsense.
 
Classic shell with a few skin tweaks, re-add the quick launch bar, un-pin all pinned apps, un-combine taskbar buttons and make sure they are set to small size, and you are practically back to Windows XP. Takes me all of five minutes to set up a Win10 system so an XP or 7 user feels at home.
 
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I didn't know that. But I'm still going the 7 route. I was most curious if anyone had seen or used the WD personal NAS. Thanks for the info though.
 
I've used WD MyCloud NAS drives (single-disk versions). They seem to work fine, though I do not use them heavily. One just holds a backup archive and doesn't get accessed often at all, while the other is an FTP clip backup destination for Blue Iris which has been purring along without issue for well over a year.
 
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There are a few nice things in Windows 10, I bought a new PC with it last week. But I have seen something which I have not seen in a long time - instability. Folders froze and I had to kill the explorer.exe. Inconceivable.
Classic Shell helps with usability, but settings of various things are a mess anyway. I upgraded my old PC to Windows 10, measured some slowdowns of my Java build, and reverted back, 7 is just better.
 
nejakejnick said:
There are a few nice things in Windows 10, I bought a new PC with it last week. But I have seen something which I have not seen in a long time - instability. Folders froze and I had to kill the explorer.exe. Inconceivable.
Classic Shell helps with usability, but settings of various things are a mess anyway. I upgraded my old PC to Windows 10, measured some slowdowns of my Java build, and reverted back, 7 is just better.
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Did you clean install or did you test with the manufactures installed junk?
I have many office and blue iris machines running 10. Super stable.
 
fenderman said:
Install classic shell on windows 10. There will be no difference.
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Classic Shell made a world of difference to me...thank you F'Man for recommending it!
 
I'm ok with Windows 10 now. I primarily updated to take advantage of the graphics acceleration while using BI as a service. Save about 20% CPU usage in my case. Windows 10 is fast, but I think that's because Microsoft decided to go with the 4 color option of this OS. Looks very flat and bland.

OH! And I seriously miss my desktop gadgets, but do like the new, more advanced Task Manager.
 
Wow, thanks for the gadget pack link! That actually works quite well so far. I love having my CPU usage and network bandwidth right on my desktop. Can't believe it was removed from Windows 10.
 
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