- Oct 18, 2012
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I have built (mostly) a PC that I am using for photo, video and audio. The mobo that I have is the Asus Sabertooth X79 which has SATA ports configured for SSD caching.
So, my question is this; what would be the optimal config for the drives in this PC? I do have a Samsung 840 Pro as the boot/application drive (which I just discovered may have reliability issues...). Additional drives would be used for storing lots of photos, audio and video.
I had initially planned on getting two 2-3TB drives but after discovering the SSD caching I wonder if I should get another SSD drive and use the caching. I do need both read and write performance if possible. Would two drives in a RAID configuration be as fast, or at least close, to an SSD cached solution?
Either way I need magnetic drives of some sort. I am looking for both fast and quiet (I know, competing interests). Any recommendations?
Thanks!
gl
So, my question is this; what would be the optimal config for the drives in this PC? I do have a Samsung 840 Pro as the boot/application drive (which I just discovered may have reliability issues...). Additional drives would be used for storing lots of photos, audio and video.
I had initially planned on getting two 2-3TB drives but after discovering the SSD caching I wonder if I should get another SSD drive and use the caching. I do need both read and write performance if possible. Would two drives in a RAID configuration be as fast, or at least close, to an SSD cached solution?
Either way I need magnetic drives of some sort. I am looking for both fast and quiet (I know, competing interests). Any recommendations?
Thanks!
gl