- Apr 1, 2014
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Hey guys!
this shall be my first post....and it shall be my first post because i swear to god i couldnt find another example similar enough to help me out!
I have two computers, one for the office and one for the house.
Small family business, so throw out the idea of 'dont waste money on an office computer'. I can take out the parts any time i want. And i use it more than 40 hours per week so it matters to me!
Office computer:
windows 8.1
unknown mini motherboard . newegg buy
i5-cantremember. 3.2ghz i believe
4 gigs ddr3 1333mhz
500gb hdd (not sure on make)
Used For: Adobe CC Products. Illustrator, photoshop, lightroom, dreamweaver/Edge Products.
a bit of development via wamp/xamp/iis
sometimes have over 60 files open in illustrator actively copy and pasting artwork to Photoshop files.
Home Computer:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3
CPU: i5-2500k @3.8ghz
Memory:Kingston HyperX 8gb DDR3 1600mhz
GPU: EVGA GTX-460 @ 850mhz, 1700, 1700 (I can play ultra anything @ 1920x1080. dunno how. 50+ fps even on metro 2033..things a beast i got lucky as hell)
SSD Cache: Crucial m4 64gb SSD Model #: M4-CT064M4SSD2
OS & Data: WD Blue 500GB model #: WD5000AAKX-001C
Data: old samsung spinpoint F1 500gb model #: SAMSUNG HD501LJ
Used For: Gaming, developing, doodling, adobe work, bring home office work.
Workware: every single adobe product(gotta learn em' all!), web servers/services, visual studio, ETL software, ERP software(microsoft dynamics)
Games: WoW, Metro 2033, every valve game, mechwarrior online, hawken, warframe, tropico, smite, LoL, SC2, Path of Exile, you get the point, Orcs Must Die!: 2, Blacklight retribution for some sometimes awful gameplay and stunning graphics, just cause 2, Hawken, Star Conflict looks pretty, Might actually download a game i bought on origin that is actually fun to play just have to find one.
what i want to get:
two WD Blue 1TB(i was told the difference TODAY between black and blue is negligable...its barely faster yet twice as loud)
Either: samsung 840 Pro 256gb SSD OR Crucial m500 240gb (Samsung is almost double the price where i am shopping.)
what i want to do:
get new storage without wasting what i already have if it can be used in an optimum fashion.
first idea: transfer Unknown Work Drive's partitions to the Crucial m4 64gb SSD being used as a cache device currently. Get software to do this, and have a much faster work computer by having everything on that drive as the Main OS drive. Use one of the 500gb hard drives as a data drive.
second idea: Put both the WD blue 1tb into my Home Computer along with the new 200+ gb SSD AND the crucial m4 64gb SSD. Use 200+ gb SSD as OS, 64 GB SSD to Cache ONE WD Blue 1TB HDD and use the second 1tb HDD as a backup image of both the 1tb data hard drive and the OS drive (only works if neither is full obviously)
Third Idea: 200+ gb SSD for OS / Main programs. Put new 1tb Blue's in Raid for data? dangerous/not work the risk per performance gain?
What do i want to achieve:
SPEEEEEEEEEEEED. i download and try out useless junk all the time. Startup times are important to me. Taking forever to load the downloads folder so i can delete that useless junk is not going to be acceptable. Taking forever to load image folders will not be acceptable. SPEEEEED.
this shall be my first post....and it shall be my first post because i swear to god i couldnt find another example similar enough to help me out!
I have two computers, one for the office and one for the house.
Small family business, so throw out the idea of 'dont waste money on an office computer'. I can take out the parts any time i want. And i use it more than 40 hours per week so it matters to me!
Office computer:
windows 8.1
unknown mini motherboard . newegg buy
i5-cantremember. 3.2ghz i believe
4 gigs ddr3 1333mhz
500gb hdd (not sure on make)
Used For: Adobe CC Products. Illustrator, photoshop, lightroom, dreamweaver/Edge Products.
a bit of development via wamp/xamp/iis
sometimes have over 60 files open in illustrator actively copy and pasting artwork to Photoshop files.
Home Computer:
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3
CPU: i5-2500k @3.8ghz
Memory:Kingston HyperX 8gb DDR3 1600mhz
GPU: EVGA GTX-460 @ 850mhz, 1700, 1700 (I can play ultra anything @ 1920x1080. dunno how. 50+ fps even on metro 2033..things a beast i got lucky as hell)
SSD Cache: Crucial m4 64gb SSD Model #: M4-CT064M4SSD2
OS & Data: WD Blue 500GB model #: WD5000AAKX-001C
Data: old samsung spinpoint F1 500gb model #: SAMSUNG HD501LJ
Used For: Gaming, developing, doodling, adobe work, bring home office work.
Workware: every single adobe product(gotta learn em' all!), web servers/services, visual studio, ETL software, ERP software(microsoft dynamics)
Games: WoW, Metro 2033, every valve game, mechwarrior online, hawken, warframe, tropico, smite, LoL, SC2, Path of Exile, you get the point, Orcs Must Die!: 2, Blacklight retribution for some sometimes awful gameplay and stunning graphics, just cause 2, Hawken, Star Conflict looks pretty, Might actually download a game i bought on origin that is actually fun to play just have to find one.
what i want to get:
two WD Blue 1TB(i was told the difference TODAY between black and blue is negligable...its barely faster yet twice as loud)
Either: samsung 840 Pro 256gb SSD OR Crucial m500 240gb (Samsung is almost double the price where i am shopping.)
what i want to do:
get new storage without wasting what i already have if it can be used in an optimum fashion.
first idea: transfer Unknown Work Drive's partitions to the Crucial m4 64gb SSD being used as a cache device currently. Get software to do this, and have a much faster work computer by having everything on that drive as the Main OS drive. Use one of the 500gb hard drives as a data drive.
second idea: Put both the WD blue 1tb into my Home Computer along with the new 200+ gb SSD AND the crucial m4 64gb SSD. Use 200+ gb SSD as OS, 64 GB SSD to Cache ONE WD Blue 1TB HDD and use the second 1tb HDD as a backup image of both the 1tb data hard drive and the OS drive (only works if neither is full obviously)
Third Idea: 200+ gb SSD for OS / Main programs. Put new 1tb Blue's in Raid for data? dangerous/not work the risk per performance gain?
What do i want to achieve:
SPEEEEEEEEEEEED. i download and try out useless junk all the time. Startup times are important to me. Taking forever to load the downloads folder so i can delete that useless junk is not going to be acceptable. Taking forever to load image folders will not be acceptable. SPEEEEED.
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