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O wow so you have been running an Extreme edition gen 1 cpu all this time. I'm guessing 4 core 8 hyperthreading. Something like 3.2ghz - 4.0ghz boost. Prolly 16GB of ram at 1600mhz ddr2 but maybe u went for 32GB because they were pushing that even then lol, but i think u have 16 don't know why...

I think if your motherboard supports m.2 (which it seems it does) that you should get at minimum 1. m.2 drive for it, so it can be your os/boot drive. I realize people are saying you won't notice a difference, but it is nice to have 1. Even some of the cheapest m.2 drives in small sizes like...

So most of the info online shows that doing a raid 0 m.2 setup in : Through Windows Through x570 motherboard through PCIe expansion card (changes top gpu x16 slot into x8 slot) is all a meme because you lose IOPS. So as far as I know nobody is doing this and it's a joke. Some people have...

I have an x570 motherboard which has 4.0 PCIe x16 in the top slot. It is stated that 4.0 x16 functions at 32GB/s because it is double PCIe 3.0 that would mean 4.0 x8 functions at 16GB/s Which mean its the same as 3.0 x16 which many people still use even for RTX 2080ti infact there are people...

Hi, I have an x570 Taichi Motherboard and 2 970 evo plus 1TB m.2 drives. I want to populate m.2 slot 1 (direct link to cpu) & m.2 slot 2 (link to chipset) Then I want to use motherboard to setup raid 0 with the 2 drives for 1.9TB raid 0 array. The problem is when you do this the IOPS goes...

I don't wana keep pinging you to read my stuff but I do think you helped me dodge a bullet and I have decided to not raid 5 or 6 for sure. But I still think raid 1 or even raid 10 is a safe option, but I may still go with just making backup images on external drives because in my case thats...

I don't know how to do that though. Also if you were to take say 1 16 TB drive for example once it's full or almost full I will pretty much just be reading from it. So if I make an image of the drive there really isnt a reason to keep backing it up. I guess its possible some of the files could...

Insurance will replace my old pc my new pc and all the stuff in a fire or something but not the data and it will be at my friends house, because after building my new system and realizing that all that stuff is gone would really suck

I guess thats what im gonna do throw a bunch of drives in there and just backup the image every month or so to external drives and leave the external drives or nas even at a friends. Then im fully protected, I might lose what I put on recently but thats okay with how im doing this none if it is...

The speed of 10 just seemed like a bonus was mainly looking for the raid 1 properties of it. I guess the network speed will be much more important than read/writes though. The real purpose of the raid 1 part of it is I write a 50 gigabyte file and it's written to 2 HDD's instead of 1 the first...

Are your backups just an exact image copy of the drive using something like acronis image software? So I should every week make a backup image and replace that image in a folder on the NAS for each individual drive something like that?

Well you see how much money I was already willing to spend on this raid stuff, how much does a NAS cost? I don't want to spend like $500 just to get the NAS thing that you still have to populate with drives. That was the point of my old pc and it's drive bays. The old pc is the nas, and the old...

Actually im gonna install one of these It will make internal drives hot swap from the front of my case. Then I can back up files with normal drives the same size as the array and they might even end up back in the array should a drive fail.

I will get some external drives plug them into the raid 10 pc and backup chunks of the data to the 14TB external or whatever and I'll leave those at a friends house. It will only take me like 2-3 14TB external drives to backup the meat of it at the start. Should my house catch fire or someone...

My motherboard controller says it supports raid 10 but I'm thinking I should still get a pcie controller it said something about raid 10 with exception like its gonna hijack all my sata ports or something not sure if thats gonna mess with my SSD that runs the os if plug into mobo sata port.