Computer thread!!!

[Wschnitz]

970 is a decent bit better then the 770, even more so with overclocking. My 770 is already two years old though. It still pushes medium-high 60fps+ 1080p in most games, but others its starting to get old feeling.

[lambo]

Bought the first piece of my build today lol.

Only because Microcenter was selling the 1TB 7200rpm WD hd for $35 + tax

[Wschnitz]

Thats a good deal, caviar blue?

Got mine for like $38-42 iirc.

[Schnitzer318is]

I don't understand the point of 1TB magnetic drives anymore? Anything less than 3 or 4GB is just not worth occupying a SATA slot. All my builds are typically one 128GB SSD for boot, OS, and the most frequent games. Then one 3 or 4TB magnetic for everything else. 4 4GB enterprise drives in my NAS for media distribution (Kodi, Plex, etc)...

Is that going to be your OS boot drive?

[Wschnitz]

I use it for storing my steam games and video files, i have not filled it yet. I will probably grab another for school though, and another 256gb SSD.

[lambo]

250gb ssd for boot/large games/programs. 1tb will be good enough for now. I use a good amount of cloud storage for school stuff and I have external hds for photo and movie stuff. Plus I have a 750gb if I ever need extra storage. Trying to keep this build at a nice bang for buck level that can last 2 years.

[Exodus_2pt0]

It's taken over a year to fill up 1 of my 2tb drive. That's including a ton of movies and TV shows. We don't have cable....

1TB is an incredible amount of information.

[GAbOS]

SSD endurance is still not at a place where I would want to buy one. Especially as cheap as platters are these days, I will run multiple raid arrays. Another deciding factor is the price per gb. I use a ton of storage and it would break the bank to replace everything I have now with SSD.

[kid325e]

Can't wait to get my first TB SSD!

[Wschnitz]

SSD endurance is still not at a place where I would want to buy one. Especially as cheap as platters are these days, I will run multiple raid arrays. Another deciding factor is the price per gb. I use a ton of storage and it would break the bank to replace everything I have now with SSD.

Endurance? Like how long they last? SSDs are way more reliable then HDDs in my experience, especially in raid, but from a price standpoint id stick with HDDs for now, because when the RAID setup eventually does break something its cheaper to replace $30 drives then $200 drives lol.

[GAbOS]

Endurance? Like how long they last? SSDs are way more reliable then HDDs in my experience, especially in raid, but from a price standpoint id stick with HDDs for now, because when the RAID setup eventually does break something its cheaper to replace $30 drives then $200 drives lol.

SSD's will start to lose performance and health over years of constant writing to the drive and will eventually die. There are tons of articles on this including some pretty comprehensive tests and data collections on forums. I've linked to just one below. Some drives are better than others of course but at the current price/capacity makes it an easy choice in my book.

http://techreport.com/review/25559/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-200tb-update

[Schnitzer318is]

It's taken over a year to fill up 1 of my 2tb drive. That's including a ton of movies and TV shows. We don't have cable....

1TB is an incredible amount of information.

I have over 6TB of info easy. 250GB+ just in pictures (RAW or super big JPG) and another 1TB of home movies in 1080p. 1TB does not go as far as it used to...

SSD's will start to lose performance and health over years of constant writing to the drive and will eventually die. There are tons of articles on this including some pretty comprehensive tests and data collections on forums. I've linked to just one below. Some drives are better than others of course but at the current price/capacity makes it an easy choice in my book.

http://techreport.com/review/25559/t...t-200tb-update

They have already improved greatly, and will only continue to improve. I trust SSD's over my magnetic drives. The only platter drives I trust are my enterprise NAS drives. Cost per GB is coming down immensely now as well... seen <.50/GB compared to about .10/GB with a platter drive. For the performance increase I'd say the premium is worth it. But I realize not everyone is in the same situation.

[GAbOS]

I have over 6TB of info easy. 250GB+ just in pictures (RAW or super big JPG) and another 1TB of home movies in 1080p. 1TB does not go as far as it used to...



They have already improved greatly, and will only continue to improve. I trust SSD's over my magnetic drives. The only platter drives I trust are my enterprise NAS drives. Cost per GB is coming down immensely now as well... seen <.50/GB compared to about .10/GB with a platter drive. For the performance increase I'd say the premium is worth it. But I realize not everyone is in the same situation.

I agree. I can't wait for the tech to get better. Platters are old. Doing a raid 1+0 or even a raid 5 is just too expensive right now for SSD and with pricing where it is for platters, there are just too many tasty options for raid.. 2x 1tb mirrored for OS. 2x 3tb stripped for storage an games. This one requires an external backup source which are cheap enough these days as well.

You could even do a large, partitioned 1+0 using 4x 2tb's. 4tb total at 4x read and 2x write for $400 (current Seagate NAS sata6 pricing). I would still recommend using an old drive as a separate disk for page file, cache and blah in that situation. This setup gives you true 1 drive max failure and keep your running until you replace it w/o an external backup source.

[Schnitzer318is]

I agree. I can't wait for the tech to get better. Platters are old. Doing a raid 1+0 or even a raid 5 is just too expensive right now for SSD and with pricing where it is for platters, there are just too many tasty options for raid.. 2x 1tb mirrored for OS. 2x 3tb stripped for storage an games. This one requires an external backup source which are cheap enough these days as well.

You could even do a large, partitioned 1+0 using 4x 2tb's. 4tb total at 4x read and 2x write for $400 (current Seagate NAS sata6 pricing). I would still recommend using an old drive as a separate disk for page file, cache and blah in that situation. This setup gives you true 1 drive max failure and keep your running until you replace it w/o an external backup source.

I agree with you there. My NAS drives are in raid 5 for drive failure protection and got a STUPID deal on them at TigerDirect when I bought them. Less than $300 for all 4 drives and another great sale on the Seagate NAS box (think it's called black armor or something) @ ~$150 from Newegg.

For storage... platters are just the way to go right now. But I wouldn't do it with non-nas/enterprise drives. I've had 2 magnetic drive failures over the last couple years and both drives were only about 1.5 years old. Never had an SSD failure and have been running them for years (oldest is a 30GB Corsair @ 3 or 4 years). For OS, heavy disk access games, and workflow situations... SSD is the way to go.

[pandaboo911]

I got a few 1TB SSDs floating around at work. Trying to figure out a way to swoop one of those haha