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Originally Posted by Sky_High
Do you have a recommended 7200 hdd? Could be even as low as 320/500GB. As long as the reliability is good as it would be use for archiving some family photos.
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Personally I would get
two of whatever is cheap and reliable, and run them in RAID1. And cache it with an SSD
That's what I have now actually:
240 GB OCZ Vertex 3 - Windows install/some programs (photoshop, etc)
800 GB Intel DC-S3700 - All other programs
2x1 TB Seagate HDD RAID1 - Videos, music, photos... No programs run off these drives
128 GB Crucial m4 - A cache for the Seagate RAID, just in case I do run stuff off there
64GB left over from Crucial m4 - Scratch disk/temp storage
Pretty much nothing is running off an HDD, it's just there to store things. Obviously I am in a different scenario right now so I can do this easily, but I think next year most builds will be something like this. Or they should be!