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Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by pedrocr »

buro9 wrote: post #84
pedrocr wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cool. How do you get to 18TB RAID6? 8 3TB drives? 11 2TB? What hardware/OS are you using for that?

8 x 3TB in one of these: http://www.qnap.com/uk/index.php?lang=en-uk&sn=5050&c=2485&s... The NAS, whilst it is feature rich, I've disabled everything other then full-disk encryption. The only thing running on it is Squeezebox: http://oinkzwurgl.org/ssods_intro

Interesting, thanks. I originally got a 4 drive QNAP but it's way too limited in terms of CPU, it couldn't keep up with rsync+ssh transfers. I ended up replacing it with a HP microserver and am very happy with it. So far 4 drives in RAID6 have been enough but it would be nice to have versions with more drives. I guess I could fit a 5th drive in the optical drive slot.

Edit: I see that these Pro QNAP versions are actually high-specced and high-priced Intel machines. The HP microservers still hit a sweet spot of low price and ECC ram though. QNAP must be making a bundle by effectively differentiating themselves in their software. Nothing in the hardware seems to justify the pricing.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by leemac »

http://i.imgur.com/KyNniKN.jpg

Mine is in one of the smaller rooms of my house that I work out of once in a while. I belive the table top is the Ikea Gerton (http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/) that I bought a few years ago. Such a simple desk and loads of room. Pretty heavy too.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by leemac »

mcgwiz wrote: post #69

Nothing special about my current home office (which consists of a desk in my bedroom), but back when I lived in Brooklyn, I had a makeshift standing desk with a nice view of Manhattan. http://www.scrambledbrains.net/2011/02/20/standing-desk-conf...

Incredible view for sure. I find that I'm most productive when I can see lots going on around me.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by yukinon »

noir_lord wrote: post #41

http://i.imgur.com/YlTn5cD.jpg That's my home office, I live on what used to be a working dock in the north of England but was filled in and used for housing so it has a nice feel, I love it because I'm 200ft from a massive river (great for thinking walks http://i.imgur.com/ibfcLn2.jpg , not so great when a massive storm surge nearly topped it in Dec heh - http://i.imgur.com/P2DRT0h.jpg ). I can't stand working in a…

I like the desk in the last photo, what kind is it?

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by patcheudor »

Equipment. Equipment everywhere. You can't go wrong with scopes, frequency generators, logic analyzers, power supplies, and good ol' t-slot. This isn't quite my entire office but this should give you an idea:

https://www.defaultstore.com/?q=node/42

It's only slightly less insane than my work office.

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by jyothepro »

measure2xcut1x wrote: post #53

My wife and I run what I would categorize as a micro-saas business and we both work at home. She works part time at a standup desk that I made from furniture parts, and she also uses a drafting style chair that I made from parts purchased on the internet. LOL @ her clocks, looks like one needs a battery. To her left is a small white board. My desk is also somewhat home made and doubles as my hobby project studio for…

pretty nice setup you both have

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by nemof »

Funnily enough, MKBHD recently did a long video showing a variety of his viewers setups recently. I've linked to the unique setups section as these are possibly more interesting (there are quite a lot) http://youtu.be/pmnLca3FneU?t=1h53m23s

also worth checking out lifehacker which features a lot of setups too:

http://lifehacker.com/most-popular-featured-workspaces-of-20...

https://www.flickr.com/groups/lifehacker-workspace-showandte...

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by r0m4n0 »

leemac wrote: post #92

http://i.imgur.com/KyNniKN.jpg Mine is in one of the smaller rooms of my house that I work out of once in a while. I belive the table top is the Ikea Gerton ( http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/ ) that I bought a few years ago. Such a simple desk and loads of room. Pretty heavy too.

What's the make and model on your chair? Nice setup

Re: Ask HN: What does your home office look like?

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Post by icpmacdo »

chrisan wrote: post #59

I'm lucky to work from home full time. My wife does a bunch of drug research when she get's home so it's nice to be in the same room. We are in the process of moving so here is a photograph from our listing: http://i.imgur.com/aziRyhv.jpg The desk was custom built for the office so not sure if we will take it with us. I love wood working and would love even more to create this myself someday, but my skills aren't the…

WOW, that is a really nice desk!
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