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    • garak0410G
      garak0410
      last edited by

      Perhaps we can begin a new "sticky" post but I am always interested in what other IT pros are using in their "tech" lives...and how it changes from time to time. I've recently become a convert of using "whatever works" over being "all in" with Microsoft products and ecosystem...so, guess I'll start:

      Home:
      Dell XPS 8700 with 16 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Windows 10 Pro, GeForce GTX 645 (my primary file/media sever)
      Plex Media Server
      Seagate Business Storage Windows Server 4-Bay NAS 8TB
      WD MyCloud NAS (2 units)
      Surface Pro 4 (basically, my main PC)
      Amazon Echo (Alexa)

      Cloud
      OneDrive
      Amazon Cloud Drive
      Google Play Music
      Amazon Music
      Groove Music

      Mobile
      Samsung Note 5
      LG Watch Urbane w/Android Wear

      Media Center
      XBOX One
      Plex App

      I am currently in transition with my cloud services and music providers. I've been in the Groove ecosystem ever since Zune but since the app on Android is weak (no music scrubbing / fast forwarding), I've decided to try Gogle Play Music. Though ever sense getting an Amazon Echo, I like the convenience of using it for Amazon Music. Their PRIME catalog is way behind Google, Groove and Apple Music but I love to tell Alexa to play something. And Amazon Music has decent apps for the phone and desktop (it has lyrics on a lot of songs). If I can live with less "free music", I may just use Amazon and just buy albums not in Prime that I want . But, I don't know, sometimes paying for Google Music (which includes YouTube RED) is worth taking ads out of YouTube videos... 🙂

      With Cloud storage, OneDrive seems too quirky for me. I actually mapped my main file server libraries to OneDrive but I always have a handful of files with sync errors but no way to fix them. Amazon Cloud Drive doesn't work quite like OneDrive but it doesn't have to if I need an occasional file. I may always use OneDrive for personal, Office documents. And do I dare say the Mobile version of Excel saves to OneDrive way better than full Excel? I'd always end up with corruption or version problems.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
        last edited by

        HP Folio 13 with Linux Mint.

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        • garak0410G
          garak0410 @scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          @scottalanmiller said:

          HP Folio 13 with Linux Mint.

          Which reminds me to finally give Linux Mint a try... 🙂

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          • dafyreD
            dafyre
            last edited by dafyre

            HOME
            Desktop: Whitebox AMD FX3800 3.8gHz, Quad Core. 12GB RAM, NVIDIA something, Hyper-V Server, Windows 8.1
            Laptop: Acer Aspire v3 17" Laptop, 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD, Intel+NVIDIA 750M (2GB) -- Daily Driver, VirtualBox, Windows 10.

            CLOUD
            Cloud@Cost (2GB / 40GB Storage), Plex Media Server, ownCloud Server, Amazon Storage Host
            Amazon Prime
            Amazon Cloud
            Google Play
            Vudu

            MOBILE
            Samsung Note 4

            MEDIA CENTER
            Roku 3
            Plex App

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            • stacksofplatesS
              stacksofplates
              last edited by stacksofplates

              HOME
              Desktop: Old Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz, 8GB RAM with freshly installed Linux Mint (did have Fedora 22). 2 23" monitors.
              Laptop: ASUS S550CA 15.4" Touch Screen, i5, 8GB RAM, 24GB SSD with Fedora 23, 500GB HDD with home folder and data.
              Chromebook: Toshiba CB35-B3340 Chromebook 2, 4 GB RAM, Intel Celeron N2840, 4 GB RAM, ChromeOS and Ubuntu 15.10
              Old Old Server: Intel Core 2 6600 2.4GHz, 8 GB RAM, two 500GB HDDs in software RAID and a 3TB drive for snapshots and misc storage with KVM on CentOS 7. VMs are FreePBX server, Plex server, jumpbox, ZeroTier controller, Unifi controller, and NX server.

              CLOUD
              Vultr 15GB storage, 1 cpu, 768GB RAM with websites running in unprivileged LXC containers.
              Amazon Cloud
              Alfresco and Box.com
              Amazon Music

              MOBILE
              Google Nexus 5

              MEDIA CENTER
              Roku 2xd
              Plex
              OpenELEC homemade box(don't use it but it's still there)
              Chromecast

              Edit:
              New Server:               HP ProLiant DL380 G6 running XenServer with 2 x Quad Core Xeon E5540, 24 GB RAM, 4 x 300GB 10K SAS drives, 2 x 72GB 10K SAS drives,

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              • stacksofplatesS
                stacksofplates @garak0410
                last edited by

                @garak0410 said:

                With Cloud storage, OneDrive seems too quirky for me. I actually mapped my main file server libraries to OneDrive but I always have a handful of files with sync errors but no way to fix them. Amazon Cloud Drive doesn't work quite like OneDrive but it doesn't have to if I need an occasional file. I may always use OneDrive for personal, Office documents. And do I dare say the Mobile version of Excel saves to OneDrive way better than full Excel? I'd always end up with corruption or version problems.

                I've been using Alfresco for storing important documents. It lets me keep full versions of files that I can revert to and change. You get 10GB with the free version and you can create multiple sites. It's not bad.

                I was using Box.com (I have 50GB free there) but I would have to pay for versioning if I wanted it.

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                • Minion QueenM
                  Minion Queen
                  last edited by

                  MainPC:
                  Custom Built:
                  Eight Core AMD
                  16 gigs of RAM
                  120 gig SSD
                  1 TB Data Drive
                  Windows 10
                  1 28" IPS Monitor
                  2 27" Monitors

                  GroveSocial:
                  MacBook Pro
                  27" IPS Monitor

                  Tablets:
                  1 Ipad Mini
                  1 Ipad Air
                  1 Samsung Tab

                  Phones:
                  IPhone 6s+
                  IPhone 6

                  Cloud:
                  ITunes
                  Icloud
                  Amazon (movies purchased from there only)
                  Media:
                  Office TV:
                  QuantumByte Windows 8

                  Bedroom TV:
                  New Apple TV
                  Amazon Fire Stick

                  Livingroom TV:
                  Old Apple TV
                  Mac mini
                  Playstation3
                  ReadyNAS (hundreds of movies)

                  @art_of_shred and @Mike-Ralston would have to chime in with what they have.

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                  • Mike RalstonM
                    Mike Ralston
                    last edited by Mike Ralston

                    Custom built PC:
                    AMD FX-8350
                    16GB of AMD 3333Mhz RAM
                    Corsair 60GB SSD
                    Dual WD Black 1TB's
                    EVGA GTX 970 SSC @ 1317 MHz Boost Clock
                    Asus Xonar Phoebus with swapped DAC's
                    34" 3440 x 1440 21:9 Acer monitor at 75Hz with FreeSync

                    Work PC:
                    HP Pro with 4GB of RAM and an Intel i5-3470

                    Built @Minion-Queen 's custom PC, and have a few old boxes kicking around.

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                    • garak0410G
                      garak0410
                      last edited by

                      I'm liking all of the PLEX I see thus far... 🙂

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                      • M
                        marcinozga
                        last edited by

                        Main PC:
                        Late 2012 27" iMac, i5, 32GB Ram, 1TB fusion drive - Apple gave it to me for free!!!

                        Server:
                        Intel NUC i5, 16GB Ram, 250GB M.2 SSD, Esxi 6, VMs running Adtran WLAN controller, Centos 7 running Jackett app, Ubuntu 14.10 running Mfi controller, Unitrends appliance, Ubuntu 15.10 running MusicBrains mirror

                        Storage/file server:
                        Custom build, Asrock E3C224D4I-14S mainboard, Intel Xeon E3-1231v3 CPU, 16GB 1600 ECC ram, Lian-Li PC-Q26A case, 10x 3TB WD Red drives, 120GB Kingston SSD, 64GB Crucial SSD, FreeBSD 10.2', ZFS RaidZ2, Crucial drive as L2ARC, running Plex Media Server, Transmission and a few other media workflow automation apps

                        Cloud
                        Amazon Cloud Drive
                        iCloud
                        OneDrive - moving away from it after Microsoft pulled the stunt with (un)limited storage
                        Google Play Music

                        Mobile
                        iPad Air 2 64GB
                        Kindle Fire HDX
                        IPhone 5S 16GB
                        Apple Watch - my wife just bought it, so I might not get to use it at all 😞

                        Media Center
                        Asus Chromebox - rooted and running Openelec distro with Kodi and PlexBMC client
                        PlayStation 4
                        Chromecast
                        Fire TV stick
                        Amazon Echo
                        Apple TV 2nd gen, retiring soon
                        Apple TV - the new one
                        Roku 3 - probably retiring soon with old Apple TV

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