I'd raid em. it's not really all that hard to do.

the only thing though is like, right now my extra hard drive is basically hot swappable.

but what RAID does is basically make it one big hard drive. that's why they have to be identical beucse it makes it one hard drive. the thing is when you do that, you can't hot swap either of the drive (take it out and put it in another pc or just take it out and save it in general)

that's really the only drawback

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Building a computer is easy as hell. Everything these days are plug and play more or less. I haven't kept up with hardware really. Comps I fix I usually just tigerdirect a cheap part and go with it. Main problem you have as a first time builder is paying attention to what sized memory/ram your mobo uses.

lol no the real hard part is making sure you don't bend the fricking pins on the processor. when i had my computer company we lost at leat 1 processor a week to bent pins because we custom built everything ourselves.

if it doesn't automatically just fall into place do NOT put pressure on it. it should just fall into place. if ONE of those pins is gone it's a wrap jack.

also figuring out the correct motherboard jumper configuration can be a bitch if you haven't used the motherboard before. lol this brings back memories with all the raid and all the water cooling and shite i learend how to do you know what gives me the most fits? you know the towers that come with the special lighting and shite, usually by the time i figure out the jumper configuration to get all the lights to work i want to throw the pc through the window. it's never what the manual says. ever. so you end up going in and just trying out every possible fricking configuration and it's not like there's a lot of space.

oh and a time saving tip, wire the entire thing on the table before putting it into the tower. it works much easier that way. and the power supply shoudl always be the very last thing you put in or you will have hell getting to every part of the pc

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Posted by King

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Posted on 12/22/12 at 12:31 am to songofthesword

I'm familiar with PC's n raids. I've got an AAS in IT and my A+. Just not sure on which way to go. I'm leaning toward the raid with the raptors with external storage for file storage in case of a drive failure

I've built 4 PC's in the past. Just been about 5 years since the last build.

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Posted on 12/22/12 at 1:39 am to songofthesword

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if it doesn't automatically just fall into place do NOT put pressure on it. it should just fall into place. if ONE of those pins is gone it's a wrap jack.

I have never messed up a processor surprisingly.

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also figuring out the correct motherboard jumper configuration can be a bitch if you haven't used the motherboard before. lol this brings back memories with all the raid and all the water cooling

Meh, never really had a problem with mobo's but I've never done a water cooled setup. I always tend to go away from them cause they are scary and new to me still.

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ou know the towers that come with the special lighting and shite

I've done 3 acrylic case computers with the complete lighting setups the main thing I hate about fking with the lights is trying to hide all the wires and all the damn zip-ties you are forced to use.