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Flemo Court

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we are building a computer at school for an assignment. the computer is to be used for music production. we also have a budget of $1000.
the client has 2x 500 gb data drives and 2x 250 gb system or backup drives, the client recommends to simplyfy the setup but would like to maintain three seperate drives: 1 of these the windows system drive( plus optional system drive) 2. data storage drive-2tb
3. fast current project working drive ( prehaps soild state?) 100-200 GB
any recommendations
 
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littleleo

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Well I don't know if you could fit this in your budget but you could do a 250GB SSD for a boot drive and program files. A 2TB or 3TB drive for data. And external 2TB drive for back-up. You can program Windows to automatically back up your data files to your external drive daily, weekly...
 
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If I understand you correctly .... the 4 drives are already purchased or are from another box ....and no way ya gonna be buying multiple SSDs and HDs with $1,000 budget.

Unless ya want the system to crawl, invest in CPU and other components.... a hybrid SSD/HD will serve well in this instance ..... and is only $120 for 2TB..... as is indicated by by the test reports and reviews, SSHDs come very close to matching separate SSD an HD which I can attest to by personal experience. I have two 840 Pros and two SSHDs in my current build and multiple laptops (one with 840 pro and 7200 rpm drive and one with the SSHDS. I've asked numerous folks in the office to tell me which one is which and no one so far has been able to tell.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5748/seagate-desktop-2tb-sshd-st2000dx001-review/index9.html

Sure, I'd like to put you in a SSD or pair of them but that will certainly put a crimp on ya $1k budget which after OS, case and PSU will have ya down around $750 for RAM, MoBo, CPU, Optical, and Storage subsystems

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178380

Failing that I'd just get a Seagate barracuda 3 TB which is 30% faster than the WD Blacks...SSD's are nice but ya just don't have the budget.

http://media.bestofmicro.com/2/Q/382418/original/h2benchW_read.png

Those old 250s and 500s are just too slow for anything else but backups.
 
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Flemo Court

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hey guys,
thanks for the info,
we are just oing to keep these hardrives as they will go over budget.
2x 500 gb data drives and 2x 250 gb system or backup drives, the client recommends to simplyfy the setup but would like to maintain three seperate drives: 1 of these the windows system drive( plus optional system drive) 2. data storage drive-2tb
3. fast current project working drive ( prehaps soild state?) 100-200 GB

are these hardrives sutible for our motherboard the Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 OEM
 
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If they're SATA, then they'll be fine. Otherwise you'll need newer drives.

Your board only has four SATA ports. If you want an optical drive, you won't be able to have more than 3 storage drives.

I'd step up to an H77 board, or move on to current generation stuff (LGA1150).

You could also consider going with an FM2 or FM2+ setup.
 
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ok thats confusing
 
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Someone Somewhere

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OK. I'll go slower.

Modern computers only use SATA ports for storage. The old hard drives may be using the old standard, IDE. No new motherboard will support this.

The board you've chosen can connect four drives, including any optical drives you want. Four minus one is three hard drives.

H77 is a mid-range chipset, part of the motherboard. It supports six SATA drives. H61 (what's on your old board) can only do four.

However, both H61 and H77 based motherboards use the outdated socket LGA1155. Newer CPUs use LGA1150. I'd suggest using this.

You could also go with an AMD build, based around a socket FM2 or FM2+ motherboard.

What CPU do you plan to get?
 
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