need help with a few things

[saph the sergal]

so i am building a new pc soon just needing help on a few things really




graphics card: i will be putting 2 into sli and i was just wondering what card should i go with the new 900 ones or something like a 780 or 780 ti


SSD and Hard drives: my ssd will be holding my os that will be a 240 GB and i will be getting another @40 for stuff that i need to start fast like chrome video editing stuff and i will be doing video recording so i need a good hard drive that can handle alot of data being written to it




NAS: not sure alot can help with this but would a NAS be worth it to dump files that can be stored somewhere else but not always needed be worth the cash

[Timmy Fox]

Since you already have a 780 I'd say the cheapest option is to simply get another.

Otherwise if going for a completely fresh build, 900 series all the way! The 970 is almost as good as the 780TI at a fraction of the price.

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Samsung, Intel and Crucial are the only SSD brands I really trust. The Samsung 850 Pro is probably the best value currently if you want the highest performance, otherwise the 840 Evo is a great lower-cost option that is almost as fast in practice depending on how much data you are writing to the drive.

For hard drives, Western Digital are my favorites, go for the Black drives if you want really fast hard drives, otherwise the Red drives are the best option for a more cost-effective quiet drive if you want to cram multiple ones into a tight space (great for a server or NAS with a lot of drives).

[saph the sergal]

thanks timmy its going to be a fresh build so i am gonna do dual 970's for about a grand for both never used samsung have a phone from them and reds cost a bit depending on what size i go with

[anoni]

Be careful with SLI, it can work but doesn't (in general) give you the speed up you'd expect, things like microstuttering and concurrency issues within software with no SLI support can drop your frame rate to only a little better than having the one card, in very rare cases it can actually make the framerate worse! Either way, just remember SLI is NOT like having 2x the power, it's varies from game to game but you'll almost never get twice the power, more 1.5x or so

[Sarrus]

A NAS is always going to be slower than a directly connected hard drive because of the extra effort involved in delivering your data. I would recommend installing the storage inside this computer and creating a network share on it. Effectively turning it into a NAS box. When you do your editing on it you will be able to utilize the speed of the directly connected drive but you will also be able to access the files elsewhere on your network, though of course you will have to leave your PC on.

[saph the sergal]

where i said nas what i ment was files that i dont need right away and that i dont use often enough to use hard drive space in my pc like pics and all that that i dont need right away plus the nas would be running wd red drives

[MrRazot]

I personally would skip going for a NAS and get a RAID 5 going.

[saph the sergal]

a nas can do a raid 5 and the nas is only gonna be used for files i dont need often

[MrRazot]

But then you'd be soooooo much better off with a portable hard drive dude.

[saph the sergal]

the amount of stuff i need to push off to a nas will ruin a hdd plus no bet my brother will want some hard drive space for movies and such (my set of drives will be locked down) and then so will my sister want space so a nas is easy plus if you do the maths

5 bay nas + 5 drives is much cheaper then buying multiple external hard drives and then theres the issue of losing said external HDD's yea ive lost mine had its data removed and someone has pushed theres onto it so thats one thing about a nas the only way to lose data is if the drive fails or the nas is stolen

[MrRazot]

Okay, that makes sense with what you'll be doing with it.

[saph the sergal]

yea im thinking a 12 bay tho

[MrRazot]

How much space are you thinking of needing?

[saph the sergal]

hmm lets me see 3d graphic files are huge so are recordings so im thinking of at least 4 bays to myself and those will be 4 tb in all the racks and my persnonal pc (im going with a caselabs TX10 with dual systems) im gonna make some 6tb drives for the files i need right away so maths im not doing it since i just woke up

[MrRazot]

Seriously try and do a RAID 5 setup
that just means that your data is always safe unless by bad luck, 2 drives fail at the same time.
4x4TB drives in RAID 5 will get you 12TB.
Also I hope you've got a fast home network because those files will take forever to transfer.
Try go for gigabit ethernet.