Gaming PC Setup
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@hobbit666 What is the goal here?
I personally wouldn't use spinners for anything other than plain storage, never as a working drive.
You mentioned you tube - I'd stored completed projects on the spinners, but all in process stuff would be worked on from the SSDs.
Are you that worried about an SSD failure that you need RAID 1?
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@dashrender said in Gaming PC Setup:
Are you that worried about an SSD failure that you need RAID 1?
I was thinking Raid 0 as the SSDs are small, 240gb so raiding would give 480. Thought might easier than installing stuff on different drives.
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@hobbit666 said in Gaming PC Setup:
Or just pull some drives out and not use them
I have an 8TB drive for storing games. It's amazing how quickly you go through space on a gaming PC. Games are so cheap compared to consoles and they don't go bad just because a new gen device comes out. So you tend to accumulate.
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@scottalanmiller hope that's not a SSD that would cost a fortune
Went with install windows on the NVMe drive, then used the other two as the cache for the spinners with AMD StoreMI thingy.
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Now just need to work out how to fix Minecraft as it giving an error after failed install (java edition)
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@hobbit666 said in Gaming PC Setup:
@dashrender said in Gaming PC Setup:
Are you that worried about an SSD failure that you need RAID 1?
I was thinking Raid 0 as the SSDs are small, 240gb so raiding would give 480. Thought might easier than installing stuff on different drives.
Yeah was thinking spinners for block storage.Where are you getting the RAID from? any prosumer boards have real RAID 0/1 on them? I wouldn't think the cost of a RAID card to be worth while.
RAID 0 - not worth the risk for the slight convenience of installing to a single drive.
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@hobbit666 said in Gaming PC Setup:
@scottalanmiller hope that's not a SSD that would cost a fortune
Went with install windows on the NVMe drive, then used the other two as the cache for the spinners with AMD StoreMI thingy.
Using only what you have, the SSD cache for the large spinners is the best option. That's cool you have the option to do that.
That said, I'd rather just get a decent Samsung 1TB m.2 SSD and be done with it. Ya if you have 8TBof games, that won't work, but that is more rare. I probably have a few TB of games, but they are steam games and other similar where if I want to play it, I'll install them then. I don't need all 10000 games installed or stored on my HDD at once lol.
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@obsolesce said in Gaming PC Setup:
That said, I'd rather just get a decent Samsung 1TB m.2 SSD and be done with it.
I would too but. Out of the price range
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@breitenberg said in Gaming PC Setup:
it is cheaper to build a gaming PC rather than buying a pre-built gaming PC. ... In most cases, the more expensive a prebuilt PC is, the more the cost of assembly and profit margin of the seller will be. Therefore, it is indeed cheaper to build a PC.
That's not completely true currently. If I want to build a gaming PC with an RTX 3090, that alone will cost me at the very least $3k for an off brand card... Yeah just the card itself. However, I could order a pre-built gaming pc with that card for about the same price or just a little more. Some even less.
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@breitenberg said in Gaming PC Setup:
it is cheaper to build a gaming PC rather than buying a pre-built gaming PC. ... In most cases, the more expensive a prebuilt PC is, the more the cost of assembly and profit margin of the seller will be. Therefore, it is indeed cheaper to build a PC.
Have you seen how hilariously bad most pre-built computers have been lately? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY-SEPGvqxY&list=PLsuVSmND84QuM2HKzG7ipbIbE_R5EnCLM
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@obsolesce said in Gaming PC Setup:
@breitenberg said in Gaming PC Setup:
it is cheaper to build a gaming PC rather than buying a pre-built gaming PC. ... In most cases, the more expensive a prebuilt PC is, the more the cost of assembly and profit margin of the seller will be. Therefore, it is indeed cheaper to build a PC.
That's not completely true currently. If I want to build a gaming PC with an RTX 3090, that alone will cost me at the very least $3k for an off brand card... Yeah just the card itself. However, I could order a pre-built gaming pc with that card for about the same price or just a little more. Some even less.
That's why I went with a Dell. The whole computer was cheaper than the card on its own.
