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I have my parts list made up for a new machine. The case came in today and I
have to order the other parts this evening. The only thing I'm waffling on is a HHD. My plan was a 500Gb SSD for the C drive and a 3Tb HHD as a D, E and F drive. I know, overkill but I tend to do things like that. I've always liked Western Digital. They give me three basic choices: Green drive: Available as 3Tb but slower speed as it's a power saver. Blue drive: Good choice but only comes in a 1Tb model. Do I want three of them?? Black drive: Available as a 3Tb, but I've read a lot of reviews that say they're noisy, and I do not want noise. Then today I got another idea. Two 500Gb SSD drives as the C and D drives, then a WD blue 1Tb drive split into the E and F drives. This would give me twice the storage I have in my current machine which has a 1Tb HDD and after five years still isn't filled to capacity. So, I guess my question is, and forgive me if it's a stupid one (I'm just not a techno type) is it alright to install two SSD's in a system? Thanks for all the help and replies to several posts the past week. |
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 00:03:13 +0100, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artículo , escribió: is it alright to install two SSD's in a system? Yes, but what has this got to do with Windows 7? Nothing. I just find a lot of knowledgable folks here willing to answer my questions. And I think somewhere along th eline, it started out with a Windows question. Too many posts to remember. |
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:31:07 -0400, Paul wrote:
wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:28:03 -0400, wrote: I have my parts list made up for a new machine. The case came in today and I have to order the other parts this evening. The only thing I'm waffling on is a HHD. My plan was a 500Gb SSD for the C drive and a 3Tb HHD as a D, E and F drive. I know, overkill but I tend to do things like that. I've always liked Western Digital. They give me three basic choices: Green drive: Available as 3Tb but slower speed as it's a power saver. Blue drive: Good choice but only comes in a 1Tb model. Do I want three of them?? Black drive: Available as a 3Tb, but I've read a lot of reviews that say they're noisy, and I do not want noise. Then today I got another idea. Two 500Gb SSD drives as the C and D drives, then a WD blue 1Tb drive split into the E and F drives. This would give me twice the storage I have in my current machine which has a 1Tb HDD and after five years still isn't filled to capacity. So, I guess my question is, and forgive me if it's a stupid one (I'm just not a techno type) is it alright to install two SSD's in a system? Thanks for all the help and replies to several posts the past week My shopping is done. Thanks for all the help and ideas. For those that might be interested, here's what I ended up buying: Antec P-100 Mid tower ATX case Asus X99-A USB 3.1 motherboard Intel i7-5930 CPU Asus R7250X 2Gb video card (I'm not a gamer) 16Gb DDR4 3200 memory Noctua NH-U12S CPU fan and heat sink 2 Samsung EVO-850 500Gb SSD's 1 Western Digital Blue 1Tb HHD Asus optical drive Rosewill ARC M650 power supply Windows 8.1 full version Couple of extra case fans, 120mm for front, 140mm for top. And now, knowing of all the videos on YouTube, I'm thinking I might build it myself. How bad could I screw it up? (Sounds like famous last words...) What's the part number of the RAM ? Paul It's right off the Asus approved vendors list; G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16Q-16GRK http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231803 |
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On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 21:31:07 -0400, Paul wrote: wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:28:03 -0400, wrote: I have my parts list made up for a new machine. The case came in today and I have to order the other parts this evening. The only thing I'm waffling on is a HHD. My plan was a 500Gb SSD for the C drive and a 3Tb HHD as a D, E and F drive. I know, overkill but I tend to do things like that. I've always liked Western Digital. They give me three basic choices: Green drive: Available as 3Tb but slower speed as it's a power saver. Blue drive: Good choice but only comes in a 1Tb model. Do I want three of them?? Black drive: Available as a 3Tb, but I've read a lot of reviews that say they're noisy, and I do not want noise. Then today I got another idea. Two 500Gb SSD drives as the C and D drives, then a WD blue 1Tb drive split into the E and F drives. This would give me twice the storage I have in my current machine which has a 1Tb HDD and after five years still isn't filled to capacity. So, I guess my question is, and forgive me if it's a stupid one (I'm just not a techno type) is it alright to install two SSD's in a system? Thanks for all the help and replies to several posts the past week My shopping is done. Thanks for all the help and ideas. For those that might be interested, here's what I ended up buying: Antec P-100 Mid tower ATX case Asus X99-A USB 3.1 motherboard Intel i7-5930 CPU Asus R7250X 2Gb video card (I'm not a gamer) 16Gb DDR4 3200 memory Noctua NH-U12S CPU fan and heat sink 2 Samsung EVO-850 500Gb SSD's 1 Western Digital Blue 1Tb HHD Asus optical drive Rosewill ARC M650 power supply Windows 8.1 full version Couple of extra case fans, 120mm for front, 140mm for top. And now, knowing of all the videos on YouTube, I'm thinking I might build it myself. How bad could I screw it up? (Sounds like famous last words...) What's the part number of the RAM ? Paul It's right off the Asus approved vendors list; G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 series 16GB (4 x 4GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3200 (PC4-25600) Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16Q-16GRK http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231803 Ready for liftoff, sir :-) http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/...r_web_only.pdf http://www.gskill.com/en/product/f4-3200c16q-16grkd Series Ripjaws 4 Memory Type DDR4 Capacity 16GB (4GBx4) Multi-Channel Kit Quad Channel Kit Tested Speed 3200MHz Tested Latency 16-16-16-36-2N Tested Voltage 1.35v Type Unbuffered Error Checking Non-ECC SPD Speed 2133MHz SPD Voltage 1.20v Fan lncluded Yes height 40 mm / 1.58 inch Warranty Limited Lifetime Features Intel XMP 2.0 (Extreme Memory Profile) Ready You'll be using 4 of 8 slots. The motherboard has an actual slide switch to select XMP. Can't get much easier than that. You've got a 40 lane CPU as far as I know, so no artificial restrictions on PCI Express slots. I assume it's 5930K CPU, which should support multiplier-only overclocking. That's what the K stands for. http://ark.intel.com/products/82931/.... 70%20GHz%29 Have fun (zoom...), Paul |
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On 6/11/2015 8:43 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:28:03 -0400, wrote: I have my parts list made up for a new machine. The case came in today and I have to order the other parts this evening. The only thing I'm waffling on is a HHD. My plan was a 500Gb SSD for the C drive and a 3Tb HHD as a D, E and F drive. I know, overkill but I tend to do things like that. I've always liked Western Digital. They give me three basic choices: Green drive: Available as 3Tb but slower speed as it's a power saver. Blue drive: Good choice but only comes in a 1Tb model. Do I want three of them?? Black drive: Available as a 3Tb, but I've read a lot of reviews that say they're noisy, and I do not want noise. Then today I got another idea. Two 500Gb SSD drives as the C and D drives, then a WD blue 1Tb drive split into the E and F drives. This would give me twice the storage I have in my current machine which has a 1Tb HDD and after five years still isn't filled to capacity. So, I guess my question is, and forgive me if it's a stupid one (I'm just not a techno type) is it alright to install two SSD's in a system? Thanks for all the help and replies to several posts the past week My shopping is done. Thanks for all the help and ideas. For those that might be interested, here's what I ended up buying: Antec P-100 Mid tower ATX case Asus X99-A USB 3.1 motherboard Intel i7-5930 CPU Asus R7250X 2Gb video card (I'm not a gamer) 16Gb DDR4 3200 memory Noctua NH-U12S CPU fan and heat sink 2 Samsung EVO-850 500Gb SSD's 1 Western Digital Blue 1Tb HHD Asus optical drive Rosewill ARC M650 power supply Windows 8.1 full version Couple of extra case fans, 120mm for front, 140mm for top. And now, knowing of all the videos on YouTube, I'm thinking I might build it myself. How bad could I screw it up? (Sounds like famous last words...) I just took a good look at your parts and I can say I'm envious. I don't think you'll have a hard time assembling and testing your new system. I built my first one in 4 hours on a Saturday afternoon. I cut much of the time by using a HDD from an old system with Windows XP already in place. I was in so much of a hurry I figured I'd just see what happened and after a repair install everything was fine. I had no help from YouTube but had already replaced everything in a computer at one time or another. I went to CompUSA to get some more RAM and was informed it was old style so I grabbed a shopping and I was off to the races. Good luck. Post back with your story and make sure you take some photos along the way. Al. |
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On 6/12/2015 4:42 PM, Al Drake wrote:
On 6/11/2015 8:43 PM, wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:28:03 -0400, wrote: I have my parts list made up for a new machine. The case came in today and I have to order the other parts this evening. The only thing I'm waffling on is a HHD. My plan was a 500Gb SSD for the C drive and a 3Tb HHD as a D, E and F drive. I know, overkill but I tend to do things like that. I've always liked Western Digital. They give me three basic choices: Green drive: Available as 3Tb but slower speed as it's a power saver. Blue drive: Good choice but only comes in a 1Tb model. Do I want three of them?? Black drive: Available as a 3Tb, but I've read a lot of reviews that say they're noisy, and I do not want noise. Then today I got another idea. Two 500Gb SSD drives as the C and D drives, then a WD blue 1Tb drive split into the E and F drives. This would give me twice the storage I have in my current machine which has a 1Tb HDD and after five years still isn't filled to capacity. So, I guess my question is, and forgive me if it's a stupid one (I'm just not a techno type) is it alright to install two SSD's in a system? Thanks for all the help and replies to several posts the past week My shopping is done. Thanks for all the help and ideas. For those that might be interested, here's what I ended up buying: Antec P-100 Mid tower ATX case Asus X99-A USB 3.1 motherboard Intel i7-5930 CPU Asus R7250X 2Gb video card (I'm not a gamer) 16Gb DDR4 3200 memory Noctua NH-U12S CPU fan and heat sink 2 Samsung EVO-850 500Gb SSD's 1 Western Digital Blue 1Tb HHD Asus optical drive Rosewill ARC M650 power supply Windows 8.1 full version Couple of extra case fans, 120mm for front, 140mm for top. And now, knowing of all the videos on YouTube, I'm thinking I might build it myself. How bad could I screw it up? (Sounds like famous last words...) I just took a good look at your parts and I can say I'm envious. I don't think you'll have a hard time assembling and testing your new system. I built my first one in 4 hours on a Saturday afternoon. I cut much of the time by using a HDD from an old system with Windows XP already in place. I was in so much of a hurry I figured I'd just see what happened and after a repair install everything was fine. I had no help from YouTube but had already replaced everything in a computer at one time or another. I went to CompUSA to get some more RAM and was informed it was old style so I grabbed a shopping and I was off to the races. Good luck. Post back with your story and make sure you take some photos along the way. Al. you will need a bracket to mount the SSDs |
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On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:42:36 -0400, Al Drake wrote:
On 6/11/2015 8:43 PM, wrote: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:28:03 -0400, wrote: I have my parts list made up for a new machine. The case came in today and I have to order the other parts this evening. The only thing I'm waffling on is a HHD. My plan was a 500Gb SSD for the C drive and a 3Tb HHD as a D, E and F drive. I know, overkill but I tend to do things like that. I've always liked Western Digital. They give me three basic choices: Green drive: Available as 3Tb but slower speed as it's a power saver. Blue drive: Good choice but only comes in a 1Tb model. Do I want three of them?? Black drive: Available as a 3Tb, but I've read a lot of reviews that say they're noisy, and I do not want noise. Then today I got another idea. Two 500Gb SSD drives as the C and D drives, then a WD blue 1Tb drive split into the E and F drives. This would give me twice the storage I have in my current machine which has a 1Tb HDD and after five years still isn't filled to capacity. So, I guess my question is, and forgive me if it's a stupid one (I'm just not a techno type) is it alright to install two SSD's in a system? Thanks for all the help and replies to several posts the past week My shopping is done. Thanks for all the help and ideas. For those that might be interested, here's what I ended up buying: Antec P-100 Mid tower ATX case Asus X99-A USB 3.1 motherboard Intel i7-5930 CPU Asus R7250X 2Gb video card (I'm not a gamer) 16Gb DDR4 3200 memory Noctua NH-U12S CPU fan and heat sink 2 Samsung EVO-850 500Gb SSD's 1 Western Digital Blue 1Tb HHD Asus optical drive Rosewill ARC M650 power supply Windows 8.1 full version Couple of extra case fans, 120mm for front, 140mm for top. And now, knowing of all the videos on YouTube, I'm thinking I might build it myself. How bad could I screw it up? (Sounds like famous last words...) I just took a good look at your parts and I can say I'm envious. I don't think you'll have a hard time assembling and testing your new system. I built my first one in 4 hours on a Saturday afternoon. I cut much of the time by using a HDD from an old system with Windows XP already in place. I was in so much of a hurry I figured I'd just see what happened and after a repair install everything was fine. I had no help from YouTube but had already replaced everything in a computer at one time or another. I went to CompUSA to get some more RAM and was informed it was old style so I grabbed a shopping and I was off to the races. Good luck. Post back with your story and make sure you take some photos along the way. Al. Thanks, and will do. |
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