Upgrading to a Multi-HDD Setup?

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For a future system, I plan to have my primary drive be a Western Digital 1TB Black HDD, however I plan to, in the further future to add additional HDDs of stuff like 2TB levels or so.

Is there anything special I need for this to work fine like special connectors? Assuming a SATA III connection?

Furthermore, would this improve performance or decrease performance.

In addition, would adding more RAM end up creating better performance outside of getting an SSD ( which I am very wary of due to the whole 'spontaneous failure' aspect to them ) say... if I got 8GB of RAM and got two more 4GB Sticks to upgrade it to 16GB? Would that give better performance assuming that its a set of 1600MHz Corsair Vengence RAM?
 
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all more HDD space does is give you, more space... only an SSD increases speed across the board and adding more than 8GB of RAM won't help speed things up

all those items do help speed things up IF you do video/audio editing/creation or use engineering software like CAD - but even then you can't just throw parts together and expect performance, the system needs to be designed for the purpose properly from the beginning
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all more HDD space does is give you, more space... only an SSD increases speed across the board and adding more than 8GB of RAM won't help speed things up

all those items do help speed things up IF you do video/audio editing/creation or use engineering software like CAD - but even then you can't just throw parts together and expect performance, the system needs to be designed for the purpose properly from the beginning
 
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You can just add new hard drives as you go along and you don't need to do anything special other than possibly having to format them once they're installed. It shouldn't affect performance unless you decided to do a RAID configuration.

As for RAM, you won't notice much difference going beyond 8GB.
 
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