Recent content by steelbeast

I ended up going with RAID 5, with a hot swap, instead of RAID 6. The reason being is that I would've only had 18TB with RAID 6, but RAID 5 with hot swap gives me 20TB, because of the firmware built into the drives. The stuff I have on there is mostly media and I need the extra space over extra...

You were requesting "quiet", so I would go with a Noctua NF-P12 120mm fan $19 as a replacement for the CPU cooler fan. Solid build man, good job. EDIT: Odds are you can recycle an old DVD burner you have from a previous rig, but Lite-On is dependable.

try disabling memory spread spectrum in your BIOS. Alot of people apparently are having this issue.

I agree with Outlander_04 an AMD APU is the way to go for your needs. You'll be satisfied. If you need to expand the graphics for playing the occasional games or blu ray expansion, you can do a hybrid crossfire with a radeon 6000 series gpu too. You can't do that with intel.