Are there any PC shops in Tokyo that sell American-made gaming laptops?

[MikeH]

I've built a mini-NAS in this case: (ITX)
https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-304/black/

Finally got the case yesterday and finally managed to get my NAS running on it too. Funny how I already had forgotten that even with a simple thing like this everything than can go wrong will go wrong and even many things that cannot go wrong will still do exactly that.

The case looks pretty sweet and is very easy to work with so perfect for this build. Thanks for the suggestion!

Still my appreciation for the old case just grew bigger, the new case is pretty small but still 1.8 times bigger by volume than the old one.

Now all my porn videos important files are safe again!

 

[TAG Manager]

Finally got the case yesterday and finally managed to get my NAS running on it too. Funny how I already had forgotten that even with a simple thing like this everything than can go wrong will go wrong and even many things that cannot go wrong will still do exactly that.

The case looks pretty sweet and is very easy to work with so perfect for this build. Thanks for the suggestion!

Still my appreciation for the old case just grew bigger, the new case is pretty small but still 1.8 times bigger by volume than the old one.

Now all my porn videos important files are safe again!

Glad it worked out!
Expect the unexpected is the best way to look at it.
I've done this enough to be fairly prepared and avoid most mishaps. That and having spare parts, cables, ties & other random pieces neatly organized to handle just about any build issue.

 

[MikeH]

That and having spare parts, cables, ties & other random pieces neatly organized to handle just about any build issue.

In my younger days I basically lived in Akihabara PC shops and still have pretty much any computer part ever made by a human so can swap any misbehaving parts. "Neatly organised" is where the problem lies...

Well, at least now I know I have six ITX Asus motherboards at home.

 

[MikeH]

To complete the story three days after I get everything set one of the hard disks dies a horrible death. I order a new one and prepare for the funeral for the deceased before I realise the sticker says it's manufactured in 2018.

So I go to the web site and enter the serial number to figure out if it would still be under warranty. Nope, expired exactly two months ago. And of course the system has been down and unused for something like three months so it actually lived through less than two years of light use.

Moral of the story, don't buy Seagate even if they are on sale.

 

[TAG Manager]

Moral of the story, don't buy Seagate even if they are on sale.

I don't usually - but I do have one IronWolf drive that I've run pretty hard. All of the drives I use in the actual NAS device is the helium filled HGST (now Western Digital) drives. The oldest set is ~6 years old, 24/7 running since installation. (Desktops have all NVMe or SSD now)

 

[shadowboxer]

expired exactly two months ago.

Good old built-in obsolescence!

 

[MikeH]

Good old built-in obsolescence!

When I was a software developer I joked about building a loop inside the program that would slowly but surely waste more resources and then totally freeze the system when support agreement was not continued anymore.

Little did I know the hardware industry was years ahead of me.

 

[Sudsy]

When I was a software developer I joked about building a loop inside the program that would slowly but surely waste more resources and then totally freeze the system when support agreement was not continued anymore.

Little did I know the hardware industry was years ahead of me.

Oh, you worked for DEC....