Recent content by efringonzales

Hello, I am trying to create a file server with 8 sata drives, and have enough gaming potential to play planetside 2 on low settings/BF3 on high settings. With 8 3TB drives and a video card in this small box my main concern at this point is heat. I am planning to max out the case with fans...

Right on. I actually got into the whole RAID array issue on another forum, and i think im gonna just not RAID at all and do a regular backup using a nightly push, with some simple software. RAIDs sound bad when it comes to system failure recovery.

Thanks for all the awesome comments! I hear you on the CPU and the GPU. For the GPU now i was thinking about the GTX 650 Ti. Would that work okay? And i was reading about budget gaming machines and i'm thinking that the CPU is a bit overkill. Would the Intel Pentium G850 (Sandy Bridge)...

Hello, I've never built a Tower before but am going whole hog into a server/HTPC combo, with 8 sata drives. My goal is to have at least 10 TBs of backed up and useable space, and to play 20gb bluray rips and battlefield 3 on medium settings at 1080p. I'm planning on using Windows 8's storage...