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Please help me build my new computer, DC!
superboyac:
OK:
Intel core i7 is about $300, from what I see.
8GB DDr-3 ram seems to be about $250. Is this the latest RAM type now?
I doubt I'll get an IOdrive. I'm thinking about 3 1TB drives, 2 of them Seagate, maybe 1 WD (or another Seagate), I don't know. THe two seagates will be used for dual-backup, and the other one will just be my main drive. Maybe I'll try Samsung finally, I hear a lot of good things about them, but I don't know anything about them. I know from my experiences, I've never had problems with Seagate and WD. I'll probably go with all Seagate because they have the longest warranty's, and that's all I really care about. I back up 3-fold, so losing data is not an issue. The drives altogether will probably run me $300-500.
This is already getting pretty expensive, but that's ok. Maybe $2000 will be my limit, I don't know.
What monitors do you guys recommend?
mouser:
ok id take issue with your drive selection and ram.
i'd suggest getting one top-speed drive for your C drive. that is not going to be a terrabyte drive, its going to be substantially smaller if you want to be able to afford it. in fact i would go for 3 drives, 2 superfast 200gb or so drives (10k), and then 1 big drive (terrabyte) which you will use mostly for storage, and dont worry about speed. alternatively one superfast for C drive and then 2 big slow ones for data.
for ram, 8gb is overkill. id rather get 4gb of high quality ram for same price.
superboyac:
Hmm, interesting, I never considered that. OK, 2 small, fast drives. 1 large drive for storage. But then I still need 2 large drives for my backups (double redundancy). That's 5 drives! If you remember my backup article. I backup everything on the 2 drives, and one of them is kept in a physically different location.
OK, so what are the specs for 4gb high quality ram? Brand+model please. Thanks.
superboyac:
In case no one noticed, I started putting my table together in my top post.
So, Seagate doesn't have a 10k drive? I guess I'll go on to the WD Raptor in that case. That's too bad, I really like Seagate's 5 year warranty.
Man, 10k's are expensive! So, two WD Raptor's 150GB will run me about $340.
mouser:
But then I still need 2 large drives for my backups (double redundancy).
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get yourself an external usb2 enclosure for that -- put a rack in it so you can swap in backup drives and change them out at will. this has many advantages:
1) you can use it to backup multiple pcs.
2) you can swap in and out spare backup drives.
3) you can disconnect the backup drives when not in use -- safer.
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