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I already have one of these. Going to wait and get two so the other can be used with a Rosewill USB 3.0 enclosure.
Not interested in doing RAID whatsoever and it'll be my first time doing SATA, literally. Does it matter which SATA cable is connected to which port? I want the main HDD be the C: drive and the eventual 6 1TB HDDs be the others. I'll also be getting a Blu-ray disc burner and using SATA on it also.
Was thinking with the second HDD after I move over all the data to reformat it as NTFS then install it in the computer as the second HDD.
Case is Cooler Master HAF 912, Motherboard is ASUS AM3 890GX, CPU in August is going to be AMD 1100T Thuban Black Edition amongst other stuff.
So will I be able to have multiple HDDs for 6TBs total hard drive space?:confused: Would I have enough SATA ports open? In September I'll be buying another one of course.
Enclosure will just be to transfer data from my current POS Compaq pre-built over to the HDD in it. Not the operating system of course. If I have enough dosh left over in August I'll be buying the Rosewill USB 3.0 enclosure. Not interested whatsoever in SSD since those're way too damn expensive at the moment.
 
SATA won't really matter too much which hard drive is connected to which sata port as there is no master/slave as with IDE, the Asus 890GX board only has six SATA connectors however, which would present an issue with the fact you are wanting 6 drives + SATA Optical drive.

Multiple hard drives will allow you to have larger amounts of drive space, in a non-raided configuration you would end up with multiple 1TB volumes (D:, E:, F:, etc.) vs one contiguous volume though.

Edit: At a similar cost to the 890GX Asus board, you could pick up an AsRock 890FX board with 8x SATA 6.0Gbps connectors:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157208
 
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bomberboysk said:
SATA won't really matter too much which hard drive is connected to which sata port as there is no master/slave as with IDE, the Asus 890GX board only has six SATA connectors however, which would present an issue with the fact you are wanting 6 drives + SATA Optical drive.

Multiple hard drives will allow you to have larger amounts of drive space, in a non-raided configuration you would end up with multiple 1TB volumes (D:, E:, F:, etc.) vs one contiguous volume though.

Edit: At a similar cost to the 890GX Asus board, you could pick up an AsRock 890FX board with 8x SATA 6.0Gbps connectors:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157208
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I already have the ASUS 890GX. If I run out of SATA ports I could always buy a PCIe SATA card. SATA cables most likely from Monoprice since the ASUS 890GX only arrived with 4 of them.
I'll know in September and hopefully the computer will install everything fine and get it up and running. Then I'll post again with the Piriform Speccy results!:good:
 
Ray_Rogers2109 said:
I already have the ASUS 890GX. If I run out of SATA ports I could always buy a PCIe SATA card. SATA cables most likely from Monoprice since the ASUS 890GX only arrived with 4 of them.
I'll know in September and hopefully the computer will install everything fine and get it up and running. Then I'll post again with the Piriform Speccy results!:good:
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Oh alright, wasn't totally clear on that front from your original post. :good:
 
bomberboysk said:
Oh alright, wasn't totally clear on that front from your original post. :good:
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I actually wonder how many 3.5" HDDs I can fit in it even with the Radeon HD 6950 2GB. Of course I'm wanting to have 6TB total sometime as a goal. Same with wanting 16GB RAM sometime when I'm buying 8GB for now.
 
Ray_Rogers2109 said:
I actually wonder how many 3.5" HDDs I can fit in it even with the Radeon HD 6950 2GB. Of course I'm wanting to have 6TB total sometime as a goal. Same with wanting 16GB RAM sometime when I'm buying 8GB for now.
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You should have no problem fitting all 6 hard drives with the 6950. Also, why on earth would you need 16gb of ram for? What do you use your system for? Unless you do CAD or some other memory intensive applications then you will never use even close to that amount of ram.
 
johnb35 said:
You should have no problem fitting all 6 hard drives with the 6950. Also, why on earth would you need 16gb of ram for? What do you use your system for? Unless you do CAD or some other memory intensive applications then you will never use even close to that amount of ram.
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To get far superior performance compared to say my current POS pre-built Compaq. Just for the hell of it. Trust me, I hate my current computer and for the one I'm building I'll have overkill on everything. Glad you didn't "recommend" me get 4GB RAM instead of 8GB. Why not? It's my own computer I'm building and want extremes, except for overclocking which I'm not interested in.
Also because I can and image below. Only the ATAPI is an actual drive. Rest are virtual.
Oh I'll be using the system for various different things which calls for an eventual 16GB and also because I can always get more later instead of right now. Can only afford 8GB RAM right now, well in August.

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^I'm trying my best to resist the urge to smash the hell out of it when I get my computer completed.
 
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I know you probably really want the 16GB, and you will probably stick to your guns, but you will see 0 difference in 8GB to 16GB. 0. None. Never. No matter what you do with it, no matter what program you run, you will see no difference. Windows doesn't utilize that much RAM.
 
claptonman said:
I know you probably really want the 16GB, and you will probably stick to your guns, but you will see 0 difference in 8GB to 16GB. 0. None. Never. No matter what you do with it, no matter what program you run, you will see no difference. Windows doesn't utilize that much RAM.
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I'll still buy it for multitasking.:good:
 
claptonman said:
All right, just saying, its a waste of money and won't help you with multitasking, either.
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Says the person with a SSD. Trust me, I'm going overkill with the computer I'm building in comparison with the POS pre-built Compaq which I have done a screenshot for in Piriform Speccy.
You could build a newer computer yourself.
 
That was one of the best purchases I made, and yes, it did improve performance, vastly. I'm not going to argue anymore, I just wanted to save you a couple bucks. Good luck.
 
claptonman said:
That was one of the best purchases I made, and yes, it did improve performance, vastly. I'm not going to argue anymore, I just wanted to save you a couple bucks. Good luck.
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I would buy an SSD if they were far cheaper but I'd need to wait part of a decade.
It'll cost me $132 including some change if I went 16GB RAM but only 8GB RAM now. NO, I will never have 4GB RAM in the computer and I made a thread in the Desktop Computer section. Would much rather have a large increase in performance compared to a small one. Especially since I'm getting very frustrated with this POS pre-built Compaq.:rolleyes:

EDIT: I don't care about this POS anymore but PLEASE other people tell me not to smash it! I'm planning on selling it so I can use some of the money from it towards the GPU I want to buy.
 
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