Originally posted by abuzar1:

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Get the red... or not. It hasn't been the most lucky color for you.

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thats not saying you couldnt get it running like a champ that i thought i'd be able to do, its saying i dont have a clue as to what the hell im doing and shouldnt have even tried...

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of couse there is a risk of loosing a drive and therefor all your data with RAID 0 but there is also a risk with only 1 hdd and no RAID. I'm after performance and speed so RAID 0 is what I will be using.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Hehe, IIRC Creaky uses those drives too.


Do they use the expression "tenner" in the US?

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I told you about my MOBO from HELL..... lol.

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well im gona have me a budweiser with Johnny then im going to bed and install it in the morning

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me too is a bud man. me no can stand miller lite. mgd ok, miller lite, pooey, yuk.

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Originally posted by cincyrob:

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@ldhewlett
Howdy and welcome to AD. your in the right spot to get plenty of input on a new build. and with the money you have budgeted you can and will have a awsome RIG.

with that let me first start with the PSU. the most improtant thing you dont want to go cheap on..

PSU
MOBO
CPU
MEM
HDD
GPU
COOLER
CASE'S
Burners

you can have a real awsome RIG with this and well in your budget without going over.
i put 2 cases in there to choose from a high end case and a middle of the road case which i and a few otheres here happen to have.

with the cheaper case you'll spend $1128 i think everything but the graphics card is free shiping.

with the bigger case you'll spend $1293 also all with free shipping
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you might want 2 HDD seeing your into video and photo editing can never have enough storage..

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what if i used this as a psu? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...7341002

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The new VelociRaptor's 2.5" design utilizes two platters sporting 150GB each compared to the 74GB platter designs on the third generation product. These smaller higher areal density platters are beneficial in reducing the area the drive heads need to cover. This leads to an advantage in seek times and random access abilities of the drive when comparing it to its cousin, the Raptor WD1500ADFD.

We see a reduction in read seek times to 4.2ms and write seek times to 4.7ms. The one disadvantage is the drive's much smaller outer track diameter can potentially produce lower sequential transfers if not handled properly. Even with this potential pitfall, the drive's sustained transfer rates have increased from an estimated 84 MB/s to 120 MB/s.

Power dissipation improved across the board compared to the previous drive with a mere 6W or so needed to operate the drive during normal usage. Acoustic specifications remain the same, though this drive's noise characteristics are much improved, as we will see shortly.

While the hot option on the latest 750GB~1TB drives is a 32MB buffer, WD is once again staying the course with a highly optimized 16MB cache. WD states they did not see any advantages to a 32MB cache on this drive and instead spent their engineering resources on optimizing the cache algorithms.

The other big change is the move to a SATA 3GB/s interface from the older 1.5 GB/s setup on the previous generation drives. Although that was never a performance issue, it is nice to see the latest specifications on the marketing checklist. Western Digital claims a MTBF rating of 1.4 million hours and provides their standard enterprise warranty period of five years.

Pricing is estimated at $300 for the VelociRaptor and the drive will be available in retail channels in the latter part of May. If you just cannot wait, Alienware will build you a system utilizing this drive starting next week. Western Digital has discussed the possibility of additional drives in the family utilizing single-platter designs based upon market demand. Our question was if the capacity could be increased; we did not get an answer, but we did detect a smirk from our contact.

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