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I just bought (1) 120GB Vertex 4 SSD for my build, at least for the OS and maybe some other stuff.

I have two smaller HDD that seemed to work for me thus far for storage. I was thinking about ditching them and getting the Seagate 4 TB HDD for $149.

I wasnt sure if I should maybe get a second 120GB Vertex 4 SSD for anything or just use the 120GB SSD and the 2 HDD I have or the 120GB SSD and the 4 TB HDD.

Can someone make some recommendations here? I game and use the PC for Home Media Systems.
 
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You'll want the 7200rpm drives , either the 2tb or the 3tb, not the 4tb which are all 5900 rpm drive. Those are goof for storage but not gaming drives.
The 320's would make fine backup drives for a while but obviously you cant fit 2tb of files into a 300 gb drive so as your storage fills you will need another backup solution.

I'll throw this out there as its what i would do, and I do do this; get two 2tb drives and install them both but not in a raid 1. Whenever you make changes run a backup job or sync job to capture the new files to the 2nd 2tb. In a raid1 if you accidently deletes a folder its gone from both drives at the same time. Using an internal backup all you do is copy the file back in when you have time. This of course does...
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The 120GB should be fine OS applications and some games. I recommend not going over about 65% full. Which is not tough to stay under. Where it starts to get hard is when some game services don't allow you to change the installation destination. my recommendation would be to stay with the 120GB SSD and get the 4tb Disk for storage but I would also keep the other two disks in the system. you have 6 SATA ports. 1 BD burner, 1 SSD, 3 HDD that still leave one empty SATA port.
 
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Would you do 2 2tb hdd or 1 4tb drive?
 
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I cant really answer this with one answer. So I will provide 3 and you choose what works best for you. If you will be storing non important files that you do not care if they are lost to a disk failure use 1 4tb disk. If you are thinking about using two 2tb disks because of possible drive failure and having your protected you are still at risk of loosing 1/2 of your data / files. however you could mirror the two drives (RAID 1) which would provide data security with one drive failure. Another option would be using a 3 disk array (RAID 5) this will also allow you to have one disk integrity but it provides more storage space.
 
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I CURRENTLY have 2 Seagate 320gb hdd. Could I get the 4tb and utilize the 2 320gb I have for backup and whatever?
 
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So use the 120 ssd for OS and what else?

Would Would you bbuy the extended warranty for the new 4tb? Seagate 4tb.

Would you use the 2 320 hdd for the main hdd and the 4tb as backup or use the 2 320 hdd as the backup to the 4tb?
 
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You'll want the 7200rpm drives , either the 2tb or the 3tb, not the 4tb which are all 5900 rpm drive. Those are goof for storage but not gaming drives.
The 320's would make fine backup drives for a while but obviously you cant fit 2tb of files into a 300 gb drive so as your storage fills you will need another backup solution.

I'll throw this out there as its what i would do, and I do do this; get two 2tb drives and install them both but not in a raid 1. Whenever you make changes run a backup job or sync job to capture the new files to the 2nd 2tb. In a raid1 if you accidently deletes a folder its gone from both drives at the same time. Using an internal backup all you do is copy the file back in when you have time. This of course does not negate the need for an external backup. a virus/ large voltage surge wouldn't hesitate in wiping out both drives.
 
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So in would have 2 320gb and 2 2tb and 1 120 ssd?

And you think 1 120 ssd is fine?
 
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Assuming that you have one optical drive that would work. 120GB SSD should be fine I had 120 GB for a while and had no space issues but I do no game look at your current C: drive and see how much space is taken up with the OS and programs do not include personal file (picture videos music ppt's doc's etc) or games. Install the games and your personal files to one of the hard drives and leave the operating system and programs on the SSD. depending on operating system and amount of ram installed you will also want to reduce the page file size and turn off hibernation to recover SSD space.
 
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Here are two different 2tb Internal Drives and 2 External drives. What would be the recommendation? Get 2 internal 2tb run in RAID or 1 internal 2tb with an external 2tb? Is there a difference in the Toshiba or the Seagate besides $15?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007603%20600457692&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&CompareItemList=14%7C22-152-409%5E22-152-409-TS%2C22-178-117%5E22-178-117-TS%2C22-178-391%5E22-178-391-TS%2C22-149-407%5E22-149-407-TS&percm=22-178-391%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24%3B22-136-533%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24%3B22-149-407%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24
 
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internal Toshiba vs Seagate the Toshiba is more suited to normal computer use as the Seagate is designed for NAS and spins at a slower speed. the to external HDD's are close enough to all them the same.
an external disk will be much slower than an internal disk unless you will be using USB 3.0. as you may know if you use RAID 1 your 2 2TB hdd,s will store 2TB of data total. you can use an external and an internal drive if you want but you want to use a raid type system you will need to set up that in windows disk management. if you plan on using raid 1 for data safety I recommend the two internal Toshibas.
 
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if you are asking about getting a NAS I recommend sinology. if you are asking about the NAD HDD's ability to play and record video from you tuner it will do that just fine. it just sleeps sooner when not in use has slower read and write times and slower access times.
 
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I bought (2) 2tb Toshiba HDD
 
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Should I get an extended warranty?

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Although you will have the fastest performance using 2 SSD's the performance gain that I experienced was negligible. I originally had one Vertex 3 120GB I was given another vertex 3 so I decided to put them in RAID 0 240GB. Yes my read and write speeds went from 500+ Mbps to 1000+ Mbps but the improvement in load and boot times was negligible. I would not recommend the configuration that I have as a default starting point. If you wanted to get 2 120GB SSD’s I would recommend 1 240GB instead. But I see no need to get more than a 120GB to run your OS and programs from. Games take up a lot of space and unless it is a must for your games to load as fast as possible I recommend spending the money on HDD storage vice another SSD.
 
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