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So i am currently using a Samsung 840 Pro 256 gb as my boot drive (C:) and for my demanding games with two 750 gb HDD's in RAID 0 (D:) for movies, photos, other games and large applications, plus i have a 1TB HDD (E:) for backup. I recently bought a Samsung 840 EVO 1 TB and i wanted to put everything from C: drive and D: drive onto my new 840 EVO. What is the most optimal way to accomplish this? Thanks

I'm in the process of a build and i planned on having a 256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD for booting and some games, along with 2 Seagate Barracuda's at 7200 rpm with 750GB in raid 0. I also planned to add a backup drive in the near future. The barracudas are from a different build and are already in raid 0 and they have some important stuff on them. I installed windows on the SSD with all other drives being unplugged, while the computer was in AHCI mode. All was well with the windows install until i added the other drives and switched to raid mode in the bios, then whenever i tried to boot, it froze at the beginning of the "Starting WIndows" screen, blue screened for a sec and restarted. I read somewhere that i needed to install windows on the SSD while in raid mode, so i wiped the drive and did the reinstall while in raid mode, but after the installation and windows starting for the 1st time it wouldn't boot again and i had the same problem as before. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

This helps a lot, thanks for the detailed response.

i have a haf 912 case with the stock fans that came with it along with 2 corsair af120's. I am using a CM Hyper 212 Plus as my cpu cooler and i have a gtx 780 graphics card. I would like to do minimal overclocking to the cpu and graphics card if temps permit.

So I have enough fans for all of the primary fan locations in my case, but some of my case fans are much higher quality than others. So my question is, are there certain spots that should have the high quality fans dedicated to them and some that aren't as important or are all locations equally important? Thanks

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