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Uh fair but what about raid 5?

I am also interested to know about this I feel raid 0 is severely underutilized for game library disks as not everyone can afford ssds for this application.

Every once in a while the amd radeon stuff starts back up but only for a quick second and then shutdown again.

Alrighty

Heres another one

Oh resource monitor yeah that one i'm aware of lol. The only other process I have open that aren't essentials (such as drivers, I have everything I don't need at startup disabled in task manager.) is firefox and one tab at that.

Alright so this is just the very top of what I got after I got into windows desktop so let me know if you need anything else. Thanks for helping.

Sure give me a sec im honestly suprised ive never heard of procmon until know didnt know microsoft had a non built in process trouble shooter. Going to do a fresh restart so this might take a min

Any ideas ive pretty much tried everything in the book and every online answer the problem is at random times its not just one process its a whole host on windows processes. Alot of the time desktop windows manager eats up 15% and the rest is often service hosts and the antimalware service executable even though I have almost all windows defender processes turned off and use malwarebytes (not on startup list) I guess my next move is a fresh windows install I cant think of anything else.

I see thanks for the recommendations on the iron wolves I just realised that I was being stupid and getting terms mixed up like usual I kept assuming for whatever reason nvme=pcie ssd so yeah just me being dumber than bricks.

Interesting I don't know I never really looked into nvme drives mostly because I assumed they were extremely costly and I just wasn't paying attention which is my mistake. Also its great to know about the cpu overhead thing I didnt know there was a difference. One of the main reasons im building a new pc is because my overclocked i5 6600k cant keep up with how greedy windows 10 is on system resources I idle at 30% which is why im going amd for this build when the new zen generation drops hopefully in q3 I need to get a general idea in my head of what I want so I can start setting aside money for it.

Are Nvme ssd's cheap enough now to justify paying the premium vs an m.2? Also thanks for the advice

I see I guess that's true I never thought of using cloud backups that probably would be easier ill have to look into it.

I have a small dilemma and while i'm generally pretty good at picking out pc parts for myself I always like to have a second opinion when i'm stuck. In my current pc I have a 500gb crucial sata 6gb/s ssd and two wd digital blue 1 tb hdd's. I'm slowly running out of space but I plan on building a new pc anyways so i'm not super worried about the problem right now. Seeing as on my current pc i'm running out of space I don't want to have that problem again. So my first option was 2 1tb m.2 crucial ssd's and 2 Toshiba p300 3tb 7200rmp hdd's in raid 0 (ssd's not included of course i'm new to raid but i'm pretty sure that wouldn't work). That would give me 8tb of storage hopefully more than future proof. However knowing that the amount of data I will have laying around and considering as i'm leaving college and hopefully getting into the work force soon (and may have important files I need to make sure I don't lose) I figure I need some kind of redundancy for 8tb's of data. So my next option that i'm heavily considering is 4 of the previously mentioned Toshiba p300's in raid 5 (offering redundancy and an extra tb on top of the ssd/hdd combo approach). In short if I go the raid 5 route with no ssd's in the system with the theoretical 3x read speed improvement from 4 drive raid 5 and no increase to write will I see a noticeable decrease in system performance than if I did most of my working on an ssd based system. If so is it possible to salvage the performance in any way such as intel optane (curious if it works with raid)? Or would it help to throw in a 128gb boot drive for system files only? Any help would be greatly appreciated as i've never actually set up a raid array before so performance numbers are kinda up in the air for me also what is the best way to go about raid 5 is it best to take a software approach or is there hardware that is better for it? Sorry for the long read i'm just really confused. Thanks in advance.