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Just wondered what peoples' opinions are on these components for a build I'm planning.

http://nz.pcpartpicker.com/p/thDysY

Two SSDs (to be run in RAID 1) for OS and primary programmes is probs overkill, but I just need to make sure if a drive dies I don't have any down time whilst waiting for a replacement.

Don't really need a flash GPU, hence I've gone with the reasonably tried and tested (for other office builds) GT740, which I know can handle 3 monitors, which I may want in the future.

Will be installing my retail version of Win 8 Pro and then upgrading to Win 10 Pro straight away (or maybe I should just download Win 10 Pro from Microsoft and use my Win 8 Pro serial to upgrade?)

Thanks for any opinions.
 
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Thanks for that, and yes I realise the need for backup, and as the article states, if you suffer a bad power surge then both drives will die. My thoughts are more, if one drive goes bad, suddenly, then all I need do i boot from the mirrored drive and I can carry on working as if nothing has happened (whilst in the mean time sorting out a replacement for the other drive. Data (from the regular HDD) will be backed up externally.
 
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Surely though in RAID 0, if one drive went kaput suddenly, then it would still be valuable time out of my day where I'd need to re-install the OS and software onto the other drive to get up and running again?
 
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