How many HD's (size, ssd or not) do you have on your home system? Currently have a 120SSD for windows, and 2 1tb drives. They are not Sata 6.0, but 3.0). Thinking of just buying a Sata 6.0 2TB, partition it, and be done with it.
Personally, my primary rig has 4X corsair ssd's all feed a areca 1213-4i raid card in a raid 0 configuration. If you do get a single 2tb drive, use your 2 1tb dries as backup storage. Put all files/music/video's.. on them and then remove them from the computer-when it is off-and wrap them in soft towels to protect them until they are needed.
Just ssd's Samsung 830 128gb c: Crucial m4 128gb d: Crucial m4 64gb e: Ocz vertex2 60gb f: Will upgrade vertex2 to a 128gb ssd when I need more space
I need to get either some external cases or a NAS of some kind because I have more drives than bays and ports at the moment. As it stands: 160GB OCZ Vertex 2 - system drive 750GB Seagate FreeAgent Pro via eSATA - storage 2TB Seagate - storage 1TB WD Black - Steam games only pretty much 1.5TB Samsung - storage 1TB WD Black - storage 2TB Seagate - storage 60GB OCZ Vertex Plus - srcds And in a box waiting to be used: 500GB Seagate Momentus XT - backup laptop drive at the moment 160GB Fujitsu laptop drive - a really old laptop image but I honestly can't think of much use for it given the tiny size 250GB Seagate Momentus - original drive to the laptop 500GB Seagate 7200.11 - Linux distros and Windows install disc ISO backups 1TB Seagate 7200.11 - storage waiting to be installed 750GB Seagate 7200.10 - storage waiting to be installed Ideally, I'd like a proper server box for most of these. But, as it stands, it would be just fine to have them in external boxes on the main machine as it really is a shame to not be using them.
1 x 750 GB HDD 4 x 1 TB HDD All separate. 1 with Win7/Steam. 1 with my old Vista32 install. 1 with music/Cubase projects on (750). 1 with Tv shows/films, 1 for backup.
main drive 500GB WD for windows 7 500GB WD for xp pro 64 bit 2TB wd for back ups & some music \ videos 1tb for storage of iso programs ( i am a pc tech so i have a few programs knocking about ) 2tb ext drive for all sorts. & a few little 20gb too 200 gb ext hard drives for my work & a few flash pens.
System - 4x 64GB SSD in RAID0 Backup - 1x 500GB HDD external Failsafe - 1x 320GB HDD (disconnected unless needed)
My storage configuration, Rig: 2x 180GB SSDs in RAID 0 2x 1TB Western Digital Blacks for storage. Other storage: 2x 1TB Western Digital Greens in RAID 0 on NAS.
1. Corsair Force GS 240GB (OS drive) 2. Western Digital VelociRaptor 1TBx2 RAID-0 (Gaming) 3. Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TBx2 RAID-1 (Documents & important files) 4. Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TBx2 stand-alones (General storage) Total 1 SSD, 6 HDDs, 8,24TB (and can barely handle my storage needs)
120gb SSD - Windows 14 x 2TB - Linux Isos ( running old Cosmos Case with mods to fit all the drives ) M1015 With LSI firmware with Sata breakout cables Soon to be Highpoint RAID Card. All 14 drives are running standalone, soon to be Raid 5 or Raid 6.
I have: 1 Crucial M4 256gb 1 Crucial M4 64gb 2 WD Caviar Black 500GB...1 of which is currently disconnected.
Very simple setup for me, 1TB caviar black for the os, programs and games. One 1TB for movies and another 2TB for tv and documentaries. Use external hdds for backup and they're not switched on unless needed for backup and restore.
1. 64GB Vertex2 for OS and key programs 2. 1TB WD for installed games and regularly used stuff 3. 2x2TB WD Storage in RAID 1 for storage of everything. Sitting in a separately powered and cooled external case, disconnected unless needed. Nothing fancy.
You might look into the new NAS specific WD Red drives for that application. I have: 128GB Samsung 830 -OS 640GB WD Blue, accelerated by 64GB Vertex 2 - Games 128GB Velociraptor (temporary) - Important documents 1TB WD Green - Media storage, mainly backup for HTPC 2TB Samsung F4 - Music and Media, most duplicated on HTPC My old documents drive blew up right when HDD prices went through the roof, I'll eventually replace the Raptor with another 1 or 2 TB 7200 rpm drive. I have another drive stashed away with the backup of my old doc's drive, but I can't unpack it all until I replace the raptor.
256GB Corsair Performance Pro - OS, Startup Programs, Key Games 500GB WD Caviar Black x2 RAID0 - Games & Storage 2TB WD Caviar Green - Storage & Backup