Mayuri Krab Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 ^ I'll be adding another 3TB red drive to my NAS to expand the storage, already used >70% of the current 6TB (9TB RAID 5). But I'm not sure what to replace the died green drive with, will manily be used as a scratch disk for Torrent downloads (which could remain on there for 1/2 a year or more, seeing how I usually only move it over to the NAS once I got an entire season of TV shows/Animes). Thinking of just grabing a WD blue (only $60ish) or shell out for a 1TB black ($90ish)? Then again, my main game drive (1TB Samsung 7.2k rpm) is almost full, so I might use it for games storage too, which would mean black is faster for that vs blue? Staying as far away from the greens that's for sure... Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7451778 Share on other sites More sharing options...
niZmO_Man Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 I made the mistake of buying a green and it died, the rest of the WD drives I have are fine. Currently running a black in my cube, the speed jump is noticeable. Go with a black if you're going to be using it all the time. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7452433 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gumflapper Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 I recently replaced 2 2TB WD green drives in a RAID 1 array. one drive just stopped registering with the RAID card the card kept throwing out errors for that drive. now have 2 6TB WD reds. I never knew the greens had a problem till now Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7452758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayuri Krab Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 (edited) Well I ended up buying a 3TB red and a 2TB black. Installed the red on to my NAS & rebuilt the RAID in my NAS, meanwhile trying to savage what ever I can from the dead Green before I replace it with the black. I'm guessing I should consider upgrading my current OS SSD (old 128GB Cruical M4) to a bigger SSD, is Intel SSDs still the king in terms of long term reliability? Thinking of getting a 480GB Intel 730... My Cruical has being fine, bar one firmware bug (causing it to freeze up every hour after it has clocked a certain # of hours of on time), but that was fixed with a firmware update. Edited December 30, 2014 by Mayuri Krab Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7452864 Share on other sites More sharing options...
niZmO_Man Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 If it ain't broken... Leave it for now IMO, do you really need to upgrade the SSD? Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7454573 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R31Nismoid Posted January 23, 2015 Author Share Posted January 23, 2015 Have a read of the data here, and be sure to look at the past articles. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/ Very helpful insight. I'm grabbing a bunch of HGST drives next week for my QNAP T699-Pro that I just purchased (going for 16TB in RAID6) I was going to build a FreeNAS box with the plan to expand out to 24-30TB later on but to do that the initial hardware was gonna be around the $1200 marker and for $879 the 6-bay QNAP will do once they release support for 5TB retail drives (currently only 4TB retail supported). Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7466713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
«Cyph3r» Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) Hi All, Thought I'd post here about a recent problem I've been having that I can't quite wrap my head around. I've recently received a new 240gb Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD to use with my aging system. It has been close to 100% stable in current configuration with platter type Samsung 1TB system drive. As soon as I install the OS (have tried windows 7 and windows 8.1 64bit) on my SSD, I will generally get a few hours into the fresh install before the BSOD's start. Usually saying some sort of system file has been corrupted. System config as follows: Stable at 30mins of Prime 95 Blend with peak cpu temp of 54C and peak cpu core temps of 45C Asus M4A87TD/USB3 NB clocked to 2600MHz @ 1.275V AMD Phenom X2 555 black unlocked to X4 B55 @ 200MHz x 18 (3.6GHz @ 1.38Vcore) Corsair H100 cooler 4 x 2GB Geil DDR3 -1600 Ram running @ 1333MHz (667MHz x 2) 9 9 9 24 33 2T Timings @ 1.5V MSI HD7900 Radeon Twin Frozr Corsair HX750 PSU Corsair Obsidian Case Samsung 1TB System Drive Samsung 2TB Storage Drive WD 3TB Green Storage Drive Sandisk 240GB Extreme Pro SSD - trying to use as system drive. If I BSOD with SSD as boot disk, then jump into BIOS and change back to 1TB drive as boot disk everything is good again. Thanks for any suggestions you guys might have, I'm at a loss as to what else it could be. Almost resigned to updating the build. Edited January 31, 2015 by «Cyph3r» Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7470586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
«Cyph3r» Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Found the issue, oddly enough turned out to be core 2 was not happy being unlocked and handling ssd transfer rates. Even tried underclocking the cpu to 2.8GHz with various voltages and still wasn't happy. BSOD's on boot. 2 cores was solid as a rock even overclocked with SSD. 3 cores was also fine if I avoided core 2, could run prime 95, transfer files, download in background and watch videos all simultaneously. As soon as I turned on any combination with core 2 involved and the SSD, bam, BSOD on boot. Went back to overclocked unlocked quad core setup on platter drive until I work out whether to go a used phenom ii x4 965 and retain the rest or commit to a mobo/cpu/ram/gpu upgrade. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7470851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
R31Nismoid Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Wow a CPU causing that problem, what a headfk... Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7471538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
liger Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 & looks like another WD green drive is about to die... f**king these must be the biggest unreliable POS ever made. EDIT: I still got 2 more of these green drives left, lets see how long these f**kers can last... Feel your pain man, my total is 6x 2TB WD greens. Never again.... I've moved over to the seagate SV35's. havent had a problem running 1 year 24/7 as of yet * touch wood*. but need to save up for another 900D so i can upgrade the server. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7473827 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anfanee Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 So my 8 year old PC is finally on it's last legs... Making all sorts of sounds it shouldn't. Currently pricing up a Mini ITX gaming PC as i'm sick of the space full towers take up. Cost wise the new stuff is pretty reasonably priced. I think i'm looking at $2500 all up including a new shiney monitor as mine are hella old. I'm having an issue finding a suitable GPU. From what i can find there is only 1 GPU currently out (an Asus gtx 970) worth buying that will fit in my case, as i only have 200mm to work with. And the new cards come out early next year, it's probably worth the wait....So should i just put up with a PC that sounds like satans spawn? Apparently the new cards are heaps better. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7619970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Kasko Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 I would wait because even if the new cards aren't that great, the price of the old ones drops heaps! Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7619992 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anfanee Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 in theory they should, very true. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7619993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
niZmO_Man Posted October 14, 2015 Share Posted October 14, 2015 What case? You can always bung something like this in http://www.msi.com/product/vga/GTX-960-2GD5-OCV1.html Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7620040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anfanee Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 So my old PC died last week.... Queue the new little grunty asshole. Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 Motherboard Intel Core i7 6700K Corsair Vengeance LPX 2133 16GB DDR4 ASUS GeForce® GTX 970 DC Mini Intel 535 Series 240GB 2.5in SSD Western Digital WD Black WD7500BPKX 750GB All shoved inside a Lian Li Just finished building it and it's updating. Can't wait to test it properly. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7623268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anfanee Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 i will point out mini itx is amazing. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7623271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Kasko Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 That's an interesting looking case, what's it look like from the top? Also what's the idea behind the design? Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7623288 Share on other sites More sharing options...
32_love Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Got any photo's of the build? That case is intriguing. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7623289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anfanee Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 Mind the messy building desk. Still setting it up. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7623319 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anfanee Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 That's an interesting looking case, what's it look like from the top? Also what's the idea behind the design? the idea was i'm sick of full towers taking up the space. This has just as much power as a full tower, just tiny. The case is heaps smaller than it looks. sorta get a feeling for it's size when you see it next to the keyboard. Link to comment https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/249889-pc-setup-chat-thread/page/26/#findComment-7623328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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