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Trying to choose between two very different gaming machines. Computer #1 is an Alienware Aurora R6 with an Intel i7 7700 processor and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 graphics. Computer #2 is a CyberpowerPC Gamer Master with an AMD Ryzen 5 1600X CPU and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 graphics. Otherwise...

Thanks for the suggestions and advice. After conducting more tests, it appears that the issue occurs only when I copy files to or from OneDrive folders on my desktop. Perhaps OneDrive throttles all copy processes, or maybe there is some overhead where OneDrive folders are concerned. Whenever...

I recently installed 2 Seagate 8TB Enterprise drives on my ASUS P9X79 Pro system, and configured them as a striped 16TB volume (RAID 0) through Windows 10 Disk Management. AJA System Test measured the write speed as 334 MB/sec for a 4K video file 4GB in size. However, whenever I copy a file...

Well, I finally bought two Seagate 8TB Enterprise-class SATA drives (ST8000NM0055), installed them on two of the four Intel 3Gb/sec ports of my ASUS P9X79 Pro motherboard, and configured them as RAID 0 through Disk Management in Windows 7. I immediately got read speeds of 420 MB/sec, which is...

Due to the massive amount of data I'll be ingesting on a new video project, it looks as if I need to expand the capacity of my system by about 16TB. One option is to install two enterprise-class 8TB drives internally, connected to the Marvell 9128 controller on my motherboard (ASUS P9X79 Pro)...

Thanks for your thoughts. If my budget allowed it, I would go with RAID 5. (I already have an external drive set up for RAID 5, but it has only a quarter of the capacity I need.) All the video files are stored separately on archival drives. The RAID 0 drive would be just a working drive.

Due to the massive amount of data I'll be ingesting on a new video project, it looks as if I need to expand the capacity of my system by about 16TB. (This is a home-built Intel Core i7-3930K desktop based on the ASUS P9X79 Pro motherboard with 32GB of RAM.) I have $800 in my budget for new...