List your IT stuff

[cheap]

Conversation at work about how much IT stuff we have, it is frightening

Currently at home we have

3 laptops on WIN7
1 laptop on Vista
1 laptop on XP
2 Apple Mac's
1 laptop on LINUX
2 24" LCD panels with KVM's
3 Nexus 7's
1 iPAD Air
8 iPhones (4 of which are on contract)
3 Garmin GPS's
Billion ADSL wireless router
Cisco 30 port Gigabit switch
8TB of NAS
4 Access Points
UPS's supporting most equipment
30RU cabinet
2 "smart" TV's
2 Apple TV
Patch panel with Cat6e throughout the house
Not to mention various sticks of old RAM, hard drives, mice, keyboards, blank CD's and DVD's

[MercurySilver]

3 laptops
both toshibas
one for me and one for the misses
plus a hp laptop in the cupboard just in case
all on windows
nettgear wireless router
2 andrioid phones
1 tb portable hd
2 tb portable hd
pretty basic really

[Bushbasher]

Hmmm, lets see....

1 desktop PC
1 2TB external drive
2 laptops
1 netbook
2 7" tablets
1 smart phone
1 wireless router/modem
2 smart TVs' (but only one connected to wifi)
1 GPS
3 or 4, or is it 5 flash drives floating around the place + a number of SD cards

Oh, and don't forget the WiiU


Then there's the stuff that is gathering dust like the 2 mobile dongles, 3 routers, the old Pentium 4 tower that my son abandoned when he was given the netbook...which he has now all but abandoned since having access to a tablet.

Plus the various bits of electronic waste- old monitors, memory, hard drives, keyboards and mice, printers and scanners that are cheaper to replace than buy ink for etc.

I try not to think about it and try not to try and keep up with the latest and greatest. If it does what I need it to do then that's good enough. The only reason I have a smart phone is the missus wanted it. Then she abandoned it after a week as "all too hard" because it kept making calls every time she touched the screen, so she pinched my workmans phone.

[BPXR6T]

Considering what I do not much at all actually. None of its mine. The company I work for and their clients buy me laptops, pay for internet, etc. I have a dirty old desktop somewhere that hasn't been touched in 3yrs.

[Bucket]

x1 LG Smart TV Runs to my NAS over WiFi
x1 Gaming Desktop
x1 24" Screen
x1 Old Gaming Desktop
x2 Laptops (One work, One Wifey's)
x2 iPad 3s
x1 3TB Synology NAS (2x3TB Mirrored)
x1 iPhone 5
x1 iPhone 5S
x1 iPhone 3
x1 ASUS Dual Band/CPU WiFi/Gigabit Router.
x1 Garmin GPS
x1 Nintendo 3DS-XL
x1 Nintendo DS
x1 Sony PS4
x1 Nintendo Gamecube
x1 Nintendo Wii
x1 500GB HD not in use
x1 1TB Ext. Hard Disk/Caddy
x1 Belkin UPS

....I think that's it.

[Bushbasher]

What is NAS?

[BPXR6T]

Network attached storage

[Bushbasher]

Ahh... so my 2TB external drive that holds all my "media" and is attached to my desktop PC but is accessible by the laptops and netbook would be considered NAS?

[cheap]

Originally Posted by Bushbasher

Ahh... so my 2TB external drive that holds all my "media" and is attached to my desktop PC but is accessible by the laptops and netbook would be considered NAS?

Technically no, as a NAS is its own standalone device. If you turn off/reboot the desktop, then all access to the external drive is lost. A NAS can be configured to managed mutiple drives for example raid 1/3/5, quotas, specific user access and so on. However from a practical point of view the external drive does a similar thing in providing access to your data from other systems.

[zilo]

16TB nas and 12 TB nas at home with cloud access for all my stuff.
200 Toshiba laptops mostly working
50 desktops mostly working
A pallet of hard drives going back 20 years
servers, tape units, blah blah

over 200 LCD screens 15 in, 17 in, 19 in etc

Anyone who needs anything Toshiba or Hp I have it...

[Bushbasher]

Originally Posted by cheap

Technically no, as a NAS is its own standalone device. If you turn off/reboot the desktop, then all access to the external drive is lost.

Usually my desktop is left running downloading 90% of the time as I'm only on ADSL at 8k

Originally Posted by cheap

A NAS can be configured to managed mutiple drives for example raid 1/3/5, quotas, specific user access and so on.

QUE?

Originally Posted by cheap

However from a practical point of view the external drive does a similar thing in providing access to your data from other systems.

The laptops and netbook can access and write to the external drive and most importantly, with a laptop connected to my old plasma in the bedroom I can watch anything on the external drive by switching the TV to PC mode and using it as a monitor and sit in bed with the wifi keyboard and mouse and still perv on Xhamst....er....I mean browse the forums.

[GASWAGON]

Originally Posted by Bucket

x1 LG Smart TV Runs to my NAS over WiFi
x1 Gaming Desktop
x1 24" Screen
x1 Old Gaming Desktop
x2 Laptops (One work, One Wifey's)
x2 iPad 3s
x1 3TB Synology NAS (2x3TB Mirrored)
x1 iPhone 5
x1 iPhone 5S
x1 iPhone 3
x1 ASUS Dual Band/CPU WiFi/Gigabit Router.
x1 Garmin GPS
x1 Nintendo 3DS-XL
x1 Nintendo DS
x1 Sony PS4
x1 Nintendo Gamecube
x1 Nintendo Wii
x1 500GB HD not in use
x1 1TB Ext. Hard Disk/Caddy
x1 Belkin UPS

....I think that's it.

I hope that's it lol! How do you keep up with it all?

[GasoLane]

I was going to add to this conversation but I'm a Truck Driver and have trouble getting past 10 !




(erm... 1...many....lots!)

[russellw]

1 x Full tower desktop (acts as a file and media server) with 5Tb storage
3 x Shuttle XPC's
2 Tb NAS
1 x 11" Vaio laptop
3 x Toughbooks
1 x iPad
1 x Samsung Galaxy Tab
1 x A3 and 1 x A4 scanners
1 Colour Laser Printer, 1 x Mono Laser Printer, 1 x A3 & 1 x A4 inkjet printers

.. and we wonder why we are on AFF so much of the time

Cheers
Russ

[TheSneakiness]

1 x 24" all in one
1 x Wifi printer
1 x 1TB portable HDD (used for movies)
1 x Note 3
1 x Xperia Z1
2 x Galaxy S2
1 x X360
1 x Wii U
1 x 3DS

Soon to add an iPad mini for mini me.

[mik]

Considering theres only 3 in our household and one techno geek that is savvy with all the electronics (thats not me) ,we have a considerable amount of geek stuff, can anyone say daisy chained power boards ;).

[Bucket]

Originally Posted by EF_6

I hope that's it lol! How do you keep up with it all?

lol... good question.. Honesly- this is the first time I've really thought about it.. I read through the post after I finished typing, sat back and said to myself "Damn... how did I manage to compile so much tech!?" ...A lot of it just integrates into your life though right? The NAS just sits and hides...I forget it's there. The TV, PS and the Wii are in the entertainment unit and the PC sits in the study, GPS in the car and the 3DS-XL on the bedside table or couch... It's still a fair bit though!

[NetBootDisk]

Take over the linen cupboard to hide all the networking gear, patch panels, NAS's, router, CCTV, etc. I'd hate to look at all that crap now

And if the main PC gets upgraded, and it's parts as are to the Lounge-room PC, then to the garage PC, etc

[burnz]

Originally Posted by Bushbasher

Usually my desktop is left running downloading 90% of the time as I'm only on ADSL at 8k





QUE?




The laptops and netbook can access and write to the external drive and most importantly, with a laptop connected to my old plasma in the bedroom I can watch anything on the external drive by switching the TV to PC mode and using it as a monitor and sit in bed with the wifi keyboard and mouse and still perv on Xhamst....er....I mean browse the forums.

plug you HHD into you wifi routers USB, then it will have it own addy that anything on your network can access.

including xbox, media players, ps3, ect ect.

[Bushbasher]

Cool!, I might have to go get another HDD and do just that. The current one doubles as the system back up as well so I'd like to leave it where it is.

Cheers Burnz, this old dinosaur just learned something new.

[sleek7]

Working in IT and making it a hobby of mine to upgrde and overclock my gear, I can honestly say I have well over 25 items which I cannot be bothered to list... sorry!

[kcee]

Ill join in.

60" Plasma 3D smart tv
32" lcd smart tv
42" plain old pov spec plasma
Nas raid 5, 6tb
Dell 17" XPS laptop
HTPC (on 42" tv)
3D bluray and DLNA player
2 x gaming pcs, same everything but cpu (1xquad core and 1x6 core)
27" and 24" monitors on one
24" on the other
2 x Nexus 7 tablets
POS iphone 4 ( wifes)
htc android phone
Wii and a ps one ( some games you just cant get on anything else )
7.1 dual zone smart amp
UPS runs tv cabinet
12ru cabinet
^ run on a small ups
and a billion modem router
couple of small 5 and 8 port switchs
harmony remote
about 5-10 external hdd's for back up of everything from pc to nas.

My wife used to think i spent too much money on things like pc's etc until she went back to work trying to use word or even just surfing then web took ages - she had a much greater appreciation for what we had at home.
Same for arguing about the tv setup - why do we need that , how much was this etc - until i got a harmony remote, She stopped whinging pretty quickly.

[FAT245]

4x Pioneer 50" Plasma's
2x Samsung 42" LED TV's
3x File Servers (Each with 96TB)
1x Intel Xeon 6 Core VMWare ESXi Host
1x i7 Gaming Machine (Intel i7, 8x SSDs in RAID, NVidia 780ti, 64Gb Ram)
1x Custom i7 HTPC
6x Jailbroken Apple TVs
4x iPad Mini's
2x Nexus 7 Tablets
2x Samsung SGSIV 4G
1x Samsung SGSIII 4G
1x iPhone 5s
1x HTC One
1x Control4 HC800
6x Control4 HC250
3x Control4 8 Zone Power Amps
2x Control4 16x16 Matrix Switch
6x Control4 7 Inch Touchscreens with Camera
4x 48 Port Cisco 3750 PoE Switches
2x Enterasys 24 Port Gigabit Switches
8x 48 Port Patch Panels with Cat6 Wiring throughout house for Data an Cat5e for Automation Control Cabling (Cheaper lol)
1x Cisco 2911 Router
2x Denon AVR-X4000 Network Receivers
8x ADTran BlueSocket 2.4Ghz & 5Ghz WiFi Access Points
2x Cisco 1242 WiFi Access Points
6x HP DV6 Laptops (16GB, GT630m, 500GB SSD)
1x TPG ADSL2+ Connection
1x Optus Cable 100Mbit Unmetered Connection

Most Hardware is installed and running bar some Control4 gear (You know the saying, the Plumbers taps leak, and so my home is never finished as I am automating other peoples houses lol)

[Rapid05xr6]

I think we're pretty basic, mostly old stuff

2 38" tv's
ps1, ps2, ps3
2 blu ray players
old sony VCR (remember those?)
xperia z1
tab 2 10.1
gba sp
desktop with 1tb storage
32gb usb flash
billion modem/router
just got a new mono laser printer ($45!!)
old canon inkjet (just kept for the scanner)
panasonic digital camera

[Velociraptor82]

Primary Gaming machine (Blitzwing):
Windows 8.1 Pro
Intel Core i5-4670
8Gb RAM
nVidia GeForce GTX 660 Ti
Samsung 51" Plasma 3D TV
Logitec wireless keyboard & mouse
Microsoft Xbox controllers x2
Creative Inspire T7900 7.1

Secondary Gaming machine (Kickback):
Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
6Gb RAM
nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS
19" Dell monitor (On KVM switch)
Dell keyborad (On KVM switch)
Microsoft Basic Mouse (On KVM switch)
Creative Inspire T10 2.0 (On KVM switch)

Work (Laserbeak):
Dell Optiplex 745
Windows Vista Home Premium
Intel Core 2 Duo 6400
5Gb RAM
Intel Q965 Exrpess (Onbord Video)
19" Dell monitor (On KVM switch)
Dell keyborad (On KVM switch)
Microsoft Basic Mouse (On KVM switch)
Creative Inspire T10 2.0 (On KVM switch)

Experimenting:
Dell Optiplex GX520
no OS as its in use at the moment
can't remember the internals
19" Dell monitor (On KVM switch)
Dell keyborad (On KVM switch)
Microsoft Basic Mouse (On KVM switch)
Creative Inspire T10 2.0 (On KVM switch)

KVM Switch:
Belkin SOHO

Network:
Netgear 4-port modem/router
Netgear 5-port switch
Netgear NAS 1.5tb storage currently (got a 2tb drive yet to be installed)

Tablet (Soundwave):
Microsoft Surface RT

Phone:
HTC Wildfire S

Printer:
Lexmark X4550 wireless printer

MP3 Player:
Creative Nomad II 32Mb

GPS:
Tom Tom One XL

Digital Camera:
Nikon Coolpix
Cannon EOS 600D

And enough parts to build 2, possibly 3 older computers

[blackf6]

ummm. Asus laptop core I5, and some other stuff that was on the sticker I ripped off.