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Hmm, I now seem to have a completely unrelated issue. Not sure whether to raise it in the same thread. Anyway, here goes. PC hangs. Following the advice above, I created media on my old PC, took overnight to download as discussed. Installed, all partitions on both SSDs deleted at start of...

Thanks, I suspected that'd be necessary. So - it wasn't helpful of PCS to put the test installation on the non-boot drive, after all. Sigh. Cheers

No wonder it wuz cheap! Now, to what looks to me like a problem, relating to my original post. Remember, as above, I had previously cloned PCS test installation from the slow SSD to the fast SSD, so it was on both. I just did the initial setup of Windows from the media, as discussed above...

Ah, that makes sense, about the OEM config system. Perhaps PCS tech support could be on-side too? Dial-up - Nope. We moved house 18 months ago, being both a bit skint and expecting to be away a lot (ahem, pre Covid). The cheapest BB deal I found was 3 Mobile BB, unrestricted, 2 year deal @...

Thanks for answers folks. I guess in summary it's a statistical observation of past troubles, which is fair enough. "not configured fully and doesn't have the correct drivers" - ah, do you mean it's some kind of cloned OS, hasn't been given the chance to properly install & configure itself...

Hi Guys (well, so I suspect :)), back for more gen. I've had more through from PCS support, and I read through a very similar - but not identical - PCS forum query to this, which ranged a lot wider. As things stand, I can go either way, and I'm under no pressure to finish off getting this thing...

Fortunately (or at least, labour-savingly), before I had a chance to install my newly made install media, Rhys at PCS came through with this much quicker solution: "The location of the OS ... your Samsung SSD qualifying for the data migration tool. You can find the software by using this link...

Hi, here I sit with my new delivery from PCS (spec posted below). The spec was very helpfully evolved on this forum, and included a fast, bigger SSD for boot, and a smaller, slower one for a video edit scratch drive. No HDD (I have one already), and no OS (I have a license to transfer as its...

Oh, yes, I'm sure the copy is trivial. Most nights it has nothing to do, but even a complete folder refresh only takes 30 minutes and I'm not even sure if the PC wakes up the screen or its HDD (I've never watched it wake up). The power draw is from not shutting the PC down when not in use, so it...

I use pCloud. They're a little expensive for what I get in storage size, but more sensitive to privacy concerns, less likely to get politically disturbed, and the help is real people. Although I don't currently use them for private data, I have in the past, while travelling. I don't use them for...

Well, there's some points. Most of my development career was spent with customers acutely sensitive to cost (bills), or, whose product performance relied in part on minimising power. Remarkable the difference in an industry where profits are high enough to not care. Although I imagine data...

Oops! I'd misunderstood you originally about scratch. I didn't see any SATA SSD in drop down (because it's the M2 drop down, doh! I'd assumed it was drop down for all the SSDs). So my "laggard" was already your cheapest M2 256GB SSD. That's in budget. Now I see the SATA SSDs under the correct...

Mmm, yes, with the 500GB boot SSD, and the cheaper GFX card, compared to your original, even adding your cheapest 256GB scratch SSD - the budget would just allow me to change the boot SSD from Intel 670p to Samsung 980, doubling & tripling the R and W speeds of the boot disk. That leaves the...

Ok, I'll order it then. Fingers crossed. I'm hoping that by the time it arrives I can do a clean install of W11 on it, I think I've got three licenses I can legitimately recycle. I might top it up to the budget with a speedier boot SSD, or 32GB RAM (I gather Photoshop appreciates that...

2060 cards: I hadn't twigged before it's ASUS versus Nvidia as suppliers of the card. That's why I couldn't "compare" them before. Although still the companies' websites fall short in giving full information. Anyhow, the big difference I can see is the Asus takes 2.7 slots, the nVidia only 2...

Great, thanks, I'll go off and tadger with that spec now. Later I might ask about photo & video editing software, but OTOH I guess this isn't really the right forum.

Thanks SpyderTracks, For sure you're right about budget. In 2019 it was even less, she hadn't mentioned video then... Never happened, 'cos of Covid. Still, we're retired, can afford to wait for jobs to finish occasionally, just as long as the user interface is smooth enough. Yes, MS 365, I...

Hmm, well I'll give up on that aspect here then. Either of you fancy working your way back to the other query about a suitable spec?

SPYDERTRACKS - Of course you're right, AFAIK I could resolve the NAS/Cloud issue by changing cloud supplier, or by finding some equivalent of RoboCopy on the NAS (it's presumably Linux based?) and making a new script there. I may manage to do one, or both. But I may not. So I'd rather have a...

Thanks so far. I figured that the obscure query might well rattle on a while, and nobody would feel it worth trying to disentangle to get back to the plain old build question. Anyway, since you asked... When I was sourcing myself a (SOHO) NAS, for domestic use, that spends most of its time...