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Originally Posted by photon
.... I've only got 1 2GB Hitachi for my primary data drive and it's hardly full, and I offload documents and media onto a NAS (stuff that I'll likely want to access from multiple computers and media players), and do some drive redundancy from there (as well as online offsite backups).
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Funny I have never owned a NAS... always thought it might be a bit over kill in itself. Maybe its something I should give some thought too.
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Originally Posted by photon
And that's something you can bump up later if you really want to as well. Or start with mirroring if you want some redundancy (just keep in mind that that's not a really good option for data safety by itself). The motherboard should do the RAID for you
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What makes you say that? I was hoping/thinking it would be quite safe.
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Originally Posted by photon
I got a blu-ray player only and to be honest I haven't touched it. For data storage everything is either online, or in the rarest of cases USB key. For movie playback I hardly ever use it, I can honestly see my next computer not having such a drive at all.
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The blur-ray player/burner also does CD's and DVD's and is only $79.99, so I'll probably get it just so I have it in case I need it... I may not use it either.
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Originally Posted by photon
The Intel 520 is a good drive as well, uses the SandForce chipset so performs pretty well and Intel has good quality and warranty. Probably not quite as fast as the Plextor but still good (though compressible writes are probably faster on the Intel). The Samsung 830 is another good choice.
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Read up on the 520 last night and ya it seems like a decent drive... until I read you post praising the Plextor I figured I'd just go with the 520 to keep all components in house at memory express. well.. shoot, lol.
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Originally Posted by photon
I've got one of those Direct II CU cards (570GTX) and it's one of the few coolers I am almost happy with (usually I rip off the coolers and replace them). Hopefully those will do as well. Just make sure you can actually fit both on that motherboard, they're huge, search to see if someone else has done it.
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I actually did read a post about a guy who had them in SLI on the board I mentioned. So I should be good.... I'll talk to memory express about an after market solution to replace the existing fan... good tip (Zamler and you)
Thanks for the feedback!