I just got through PCMag's guide for building a PC however I have a few more questions that need answering.
I'm building a rig that will essentially be for audio/video/photo editing, and that already entails for me a lot of storage
in the PCMAG Guide that I read, it mentions different drive bays, 5.25, 3.5, 2.5 inches in size. My concern for the most part in picking a case outside from the obvious components is storage. What I am a little fuzzy on are the drive bays and the difference between internal and external, to an extent.
5.25 are solely for DVD/Blu-Ray optical drives? And they are external, correct?
3.5 are solely for storage hard drives and they are internal ?
2.5 is for SSD (which is to my understanding just a smaller sized hard drive) also internal
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Now as I've mentioned before my concern is storage for a rig I'm building so my question now is this and please correct me if I'm wrong; If I buy, say 3 internal hard drives and I want to connect them all through RAID to work as one massive drive - what do I need to pay attention to when making a purchase?
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CD/DVD/BLURAY burners and readers. If I need to write media on any of these three platforms does it mean I have to have 3 burners of each or is there a type of optical that actually can perform these tasks in one drive. If so then I should be buying a case with three 5.25 inch bays? and three separate burners? Also noob, but can burners also read data as a regular drive or would I need separate respective optical DRIVES - which would means total of 6 optical drives? or am I obviously misunderstanding this concept? Sorry I've never really built a system by myself hehe.
Thank you for being patient.
I'm building a rig that will essentially be for audio/video/photo editing, and that already entails for me a lot of storage
in the PCMAG Guide that I read, it mentions different drive bays, 5.25, 3.5, 2.5 inches in size. My concern for the most part in picking a case outside from the obvious components is storage. What I am a little fuzzy on are the drive bays and the difference between internal and external, to an extent.
5.25 are solely for DVD/Blu-Ray optical drives? And they are external, correct?
3.5 are solely for storage hard drives and they are internal ?
2.5 is for SSD (which is to my understanding just a smaller sized hard drive) also internal
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Now as I've mentioned before my concern is storage for a rig I'm building so my question now is this and please correct me if I'm wrong; If I buy, say 3 internal hard drives and I want to connect them all through RAID to work as one massive drive - what do I need to pay attention to when making a purchase?
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CD/DVD/BLURAY burners and readers. If I need to write media on any of these three platforms does it mean I have to have 3 burners of each or is there a type of optical that actually can perform these tasks in one drive. If so then I should be buying a case with three 5.25 inch bays? and three separate burners? Also noob, but can burners also read data as a regular drive or would I need separate respective optical DRIVES - which would means total of 6 optical drives? or am I obviously misunderstanding this concept? Sorry I've never really built a system by myself hehe.
Thank you for being patient.
As for hard drives, they're pretty much all in a bunch. ALl of them these days are very reliable. For the staging SSD, get the cheapest at the capacity you want, it'll still last a good few years. 
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