Living in a Northeast US big city has it's advantages, but there are plenty of disadvantages too, trust me!

Probably, I suspect that I'm happier with the quiet and the personal space.

I'm mostly just pissed because they were supposed to be laying fiber this year, but apparently couldn't arrange financing and neither Qwest nor Centurylink are particularly interested in offering the service.

Wow, interesting news. Is there no dedicated thread with wild guesses and speculation yet?

I would think one of the announcements would have to do with Linux support.

8MB, I get that with GOG, it's Steam that never breaks 2MB on my 15MB connection.

Well, I get that with GOG if it isn't during a promo, then downloads slow to Steam-like speeds or worse.

The "problem" is that GoG is constantly updating their games and after awhile I simply stopped trying to keep up. I own 367 games so it's a pain in the ass to keep up with that (though it's the good kind of pain) and keep all the games on an external drive. Now I just make sure I keep my favorite ones updated and stored like PST, Fallout, Witcher 1+2, BG 1+2 etc.

So yes, if GoG goes under I will loose about 350 games but I suppose GoG is like masturbation: it was fun while it lasted, but again just like masturbation I hope GoG doesn't stop just yet.

What nonsense are you going on about? I suggested a NAS as StingingVelvet may be outgrowing a simple external drive for his backups. What does any of this have to do about running a degraded RAID, and you can walk out of a brick & mortar with both a NAS & drives in hand. The NAS is not a solution for the immediate problem.

Furthermore, I don't see the point of getting a NAS and then running it in a non-redundant fashion.

Sigh, you might want to do some research before you accuse me of nonsense. Those "NAS" things they sell at a typical brick and mortar are a cure worse than the disease. They're proprietary and if something goes wrong, you're completely fucked. What's more, they don't actually solve any of the problems that StingingVelvet is likely to have.

As far as running it in a non-redundant fashion, redundancy has nothing to do with NAS, some are and some aren't, the point of them is that they're storage attached to the network. Adding an additional level of complexity and expense isn't something that people should just automatically assume they need. If the NAS dies, in most cases the data dies with it as there isn't a particular format that they all share.

For somebody like StingingVelvet, I wouldn't just assume that he needs RAID. Especially not for the purposes of backing up games that he can download.

Genetical engineering to remove the need for sleep so we can have a never ending insomnia sale.

Personally, I don't assume somebody like StingingVelvet is an idiot. If he wants to I'm quite sure he can competently use a NAS. No form of RAID is a substitute for backups. RAID is a high availability strategy. It appears he needed additional HDD space for something other than backing up games that he can download.

Nonsense. You need to work on your reading comprehension. You seem to have missed the part where I stated that I did not like off the shelf units. What was the tangent about running RAID without the full complement of disks about? As if that was suggested somewhere. JBOD mode on those units are often proprietary as well.

NAS - Network Attached Storage.

Go with that. Add an additional level of complexity and expense, but be sure you don't use any redundancy with it. Feel free to add in your next post how it's a bad idea to use high density drives in RAID 5 like arrays.

Couldn't you get a portable HD, they aren't that expensive, I had a similar space situation and get a 2 terabyte (sp?) for about €50.

Hmm... maybe a way to more accurately emulate old hardware so that games from the 90s and early 00s not running on DOS are much easier to make work on modern systems (as well more accurately)? Right now I'm pretty sure GOG mainly uses open source, 3rd party software to get DOS games and games that use 3Dfx and nGlide to work - maybe they have their own proprietary emulation planned that would work with more such old hardware such as the Voodoo graphics card? This would get games like Interstate '76 working again on new environments, so this would be really cool if GOG were able to get accurate emulation for these kinds of things working. Plus, if this is what they have planned, it certainly would make for bringing more and more classic games to the site that much easier.

Maybe some Amiga, Commodore 64, etc. emulation as well? It'd be sweet to have more old computer OSes games be brought to Win/Mac/Linux, but this is probably far less likely. Can't wait to see what E3 brings in announcements for GOG.com. I'm expecting big things, so hopefully this news amounts to something big instead of a wimper.

I just need larger drives, I don't think I need to go complicated. My external is only 500GB and internal is 1TB, and I just ran out of room for keeping everything backed up on both. I'll get a 2TB external here soon which should solve most issues, then a larger internal when I upgrade my PC this Fall.