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I'd love the Excalibur v2 by Tesoro because it would look great with my new setup and help me get to Gold in Blade and Soul!

Heads up other Eclipse P400 fans, I didn't see anything about a more precise release date on the Phanteks website, but I did find THIS on newegg.com after making an "Eclipse P400" search.

Intro: Skip to the next paragraph if you don't need a back story. My wife's hard drive failed two weeks ago and we lost every picture we didn't post to Facebook of our one year old since birth. I'm going through Werecoverdata.com because I saw they did a good one for LMG and I didn't even know the service existed. As you may already know, it's expensive. I decided to prevent this from happening again, we needed a redundant drive, but decided to go DIY. I saw that used E5-2670s go for dirt cheap; I also saw that FX-6300s do as well. But I'm overwhelmed in computer parts as I've been digging adamantly for about 2 weeks now. So here's what I've got: Cpu: E5-2670 (cheap and awesome) Mobo: Any LGA 2011 with at least 4 slots (to take advantage of the quad channel RAM) RAM: 8-16GBs DDR3 Or Cpu: FX-6300 new/FX-8120 from my current rig Mobo: 970/980/990 chipset with at least 2 RAM slots. RAM: 8-16GBs DDR3 Either setup will come with the essentials: -400W/500W PSU 80+ gold/platinum -My old Antec 900 case -Rosewill hotswap bay (4x3.5 HDD to 3x5.25 bay slots) -a pair of NAS style HDDs at 2-4TBs each (2 in RAID 1; maybe 4 in RAID 5) -LSI 9211 8i + cables + Alpenwasser's IT flash guide (link at the bottom) -freeNAS OS Any advice, comments, critique, build suggestions, questions, etc... are welcome. Is RAID safe for a system based on keeping information safe? I hear nightmare stories about RAID controllers and mobos killing information. I want a beefier cpu to be able to handle 4 computers writing to this NAS with a capability to be read from quickly for a home theater setup eventually. My budget is $500 including 2 drives, but cheaper is better. If I can afford ECC parts in my budget, please let me know.

Fantastic, thank you for the super fast replies gentlemen.

I have an E5 2670 I purchased and wanted to know if it'd work in any LGA2011 socket made in 2012 (same year the processor was made) or later? Also, would I need a graphics adapter? I'm looking for a relatively cheap single socket mobo, at least 4 slot RAM, ATX, and 2 pcie slots.

I saw that Hardware Canucks got their hands on a retail version of the Eclipse P400S. I understand they'd get one before the general public, but how much longer until it will hit the market? Edit: I didn't add the link to the retail version received by HW Canucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzXmR9QerOY

I believe my wife should have the new Apacer SSD. Her old HDD from her laptop crashed last week which had on it every picture of my 1 year old since her birth. I sent the HDD to "We Recover Data" since I saw how they worked with Linus when the Wohnnock server crashed (think that's how you spell it?). As anyone may know, this is going to set us back by quite a bit. I believe everyone should have an SSD (and a redundant drive) so they will never have to hear the 'click of death', and possibly lose irreplaceable information. Best luck to everyone else, but I certainly hope I'll get to surprise my wife with a reliable SSD.