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I'm thinking of finally joining the SSD Masterrace by picking up a Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD. However, while verifying that this would work in my case, I came across an interesting decision: should I mount the SSD behind the motherboard, or in the drive cage? I was wondering if there was any benefit to either one. For either of the two configurations, I'm going to need two SATA Power cables, so it's not as if I'll be saving a cable either way. I'm in a Phanteks Enthoo Pro, so I there's no SSD mount on the stealth PSU cover.

So I am building a new PC and i'm having trouble picking my storage. I want Windows, programs and my games to be fast, but I also need mass storage for recordings and movies. My current idea is to have 2 x 240GB SSD's in RAID 0 for the boot drive and games/programs, then a 3TB HDD for mass storage. My only problem is I don't know how easy RAID 0 is as a boot drive and how practical this is. I've calculated once I install all Windows, my games and programs, it will take up ~230GB. If any of you have insights to RAID 0 boot drives or other setups that are better that suit my needs then let me know!

Should I use nas drives in my server? What is the benefit of spending the extra money for a nas drive for my server.

I built a FreeNas server last year with one 3TB WD RED drive knowing that it was risky and that I would eventually add more drives for space and redundancy/error checking. My question is how do I get it setup in such a way where I have 2 striped drives for space and speed and 1 drive for error checking. I was reading that it was possible and even preferred to setup Freenas ZFS partitions with odd numbers of drives for this reason. Can someone explain how to do that? Am I thinking about this wrong? Thanks, Elliott35

I just bought 2 2TB WD Black drives from Newegg and installed the Hardware into my computer to put into Raid 1. When I boot up I can see the drives in the boot screen. When I log into Windows they do not show. I have scanned my drives in the Disk management but they still won't show. My spec are in the sig. Please help! Thanks in advance!!!

Hi i am looking for a nas. To store my 3tb worth of movies only. And then i need 1 tb more for music an other radom stuff. I want to acces it with my ipad, phone an pc. Which nas drive should i get. I dont know if raid 0 or 1 is worth it so i also need help with that. Ooo and the worst thing is my budget is 400 euro. Can anyone help me with it? Sorry for my bad englisch i live in holland so that is why....

Hey all I'm new to hard drives and picking them normally i get a friend to do it but i want to learn it for myself now so im looking at the WD Purple WD10PURX 3.5" 1TB 64MB Surveillance HDD and i dont know the different between purple and blue or what ever other ones that are out there so if your able to help that would be amazing thanks all

I am Looking at doing raid 1 for personal storage using WD red 2 or 3 TB drives is there a performance difference between them as there is little price difference Also want a 4 TB drive for mass storage and look at Seagate Barracuda 4TB or Hitachi HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB or any other suggestions

I think that there are no problems in understanding. Thanks in advance

If there is space for hard drives, where are they?

Just curious what a resonable amount of datat written to your ssd or hard drive would be over of your drives? I know this varies by individual so include things like number of years, months, and weeks you have had the drive or ssd, as well as how long ago you actually started using them. I have had my ssd for about 2 weeks and am currenly at 1.52 terabytes of written data.

Test Drive: Source: http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/2014-mercedes-benz-s550-self-driving-luxury-suite-160312149.html I know this is a bit off topic but this vehicle is a tech paradise! 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550, your self-driving luxury suite awaits: Motoramic Drives The 2014 Mercedes-Benz S550 can drive itself. This is not hyperbole, but an indubitable fact. Buy the new flagship sedan for an as-yet undisclosed price (we can’t imagine it returning many Sacagawea coins from a $100,000 bearer bond), tick the order boxes for the $4,500 Premium 1 Package and the $2,800 Driver Assistance Package, twist the key in the starter and slide the memory stick-sized column shifter into D, and sit back and relax. The car’s suite of stereoscopic cameras, radar sensors and ultrasonic gewgaws create what Mercedes — in a Snowden-level defection from Earth-bound physics — calls “6-D Vision.” This double-down dimensionality apparently endows the vehicle’s robot brain with an omnipotence once ascribed solely to God. Bow deep, luxury shopper. The automotive world has a new deity. All of these electronic systems create an eerie and unfamiliar dynamic, one in which the distinctions between being in the pilot’s seat and being a passenger disappear. Given the status afforded the S550’s passengers — who are all mollycoddled with heated, ventilated, reclining, massaging, perforated, diamond-stitched, perfume-shpritzed (!), flatscreen-equipped, remote-controlled, Internet-enabled, mother-hugging, veal-soft leather seats, at least one of which (the right rear) can be made to prostrate toward a slumber-inducing horizontality — this is not meant as an insult. Still, in our years of test-driving vehicles, we have never before been confronted with the consistent desire, or ability, to remove ourselves from driving and turn around to speak to our passenger, who was splayed out in the aforementioned Diamond Class position like a resplendent Roman atop his villa’s stibadium. There are about 16,000 actions, previously left to the hands and feet and eyes of the driver, which the S550 can now perform with complete autonomy. These include starting, stopping, steering, braking, remaining in a lane, avoiding a head-on collision, avoiding a cross-traffic collision, fending off a rear-end collision, spotting street signs, reading street signs, spotting wildlife, parallel parking, right-angle parking, maintaining a safe following speed, spotting pedestrians, avoiding killing pedestrians and flashing the high beams at pedestrians spotted on the side of the roadway at night. We had the opportunity to experience and be awed by every one of these except the final one, as it is our feeling that whenever there is a pedestrian on the side of the road at night, he is up to something, and the last thing we want to do is call attention to the fact that we spotted him and highlight — with ten-zillion lumens of LED headlamp power — his act of burying whomever he’s just murdered and dismembered. Also, contrary to rumor, it is not possible to receive an upright MRI while positioned in the driver’s seat of the new S-Class. Yet. If one gets uppity, and decides to disable all of these systems — which can be easily accomplished, and, as far as we can tell, invites no significant retaliation from the onboard HAL 9000 — the S550 rewards with precisely the kind of driving experience one expects from an S-Class. The twin-turbocharged V-8, while displacing 4.6 liters in violation of traditional Daimler nomenclature, puts out a creamily potent 455 hp and a Caterpillar-esque 516 lb-ft of torque, which pulls the 17-foot, 4,300 lb. behemoth to 60 mph in a manufacturer estimated 4.8 seconds. (The inevitable S63 AMG, which we expect to see revealed at or before the Frankfurt Auto Show in September, should improve on this.) The exhaust does not bark, even if held to redline via the steering wheel’s paddle shifters in one of the transmission’s seven gears — instead releasing a maundering zephyric undertone, like that in a private jet or a Christopher Nolan film. The 18-inch standard wheels keep their rubber properly planted to any surface, via a quartet of shocks and continuously adjustable air springs, with an optional assist from MAGIC BODY CONTROL, which emits indomitable laser frequencies that seemingly pulverize into flowing silicone any proximate road imperfection. (For the flashy, 19-inch twin-spoke and 20-inch multi-spokes wheels are available, with concomitant all-season or performance tires, from AMG for $5,900 or $6,650 dollars.) And, of course, the entire structure is as rigid and inflexible as a filibustering lawmaker. And what a lovely structure it is. We personally felt that the outgoing S Class, the W221, had an uncouth appearance that was half bluster and half blather, with goofy cartoonish eyeballs and steroidal muscle bulges that put us more in mind of Mighty Mousen than a real Masters of the Universe. The new car, coded W222, smoothes out all of those crests, leaving a car that has an almost Italianate elegance without sacrificing any of the Teutonic purposefulness. The car is larger than its predecessor, but its refined cohesiveness, and the absence of overwrought “design” details that have plagued recent Benzes, make it appear more taut. If anything, the truncated trunk, while nicely integrated, might be a bit too small for a car of this scale. Or perhaps we were just operating under the swooning long decked influence of the 1980s W126 420 SEL Mercedes had on hand for chauffeur-driven comparison. We worship the W126. But while being ferried about in this car made us feel like a 1980s banker, driving — or should we say "driving" — the new S550 made us feel like we owned the bank. Or the bank owned us. Or we were inside an impenetrable vault in a bank controlled by our robotic avatar located in the sixth dimension and manipulated by proxy via a complex series of intergalactic shell corporations. Like the markets themselves, the S-Class excels at using technology to upgrade one's securities.

Hi guys, Here are the 4 drives: Seagate ST4000VN000 4TB 7200RPM - $170 Seagate ST4000VM000 4TB 5900RPM - $185 Not sure on the difference between the two aside from the RPM and price difference. Why is one cheaper than the other, but slower? Older model? WD Red WD40EFRX 5400 RPM 4TB - $180 WD SE WD4000F9YZ 7200 RPM 4TB - $260 (with shipping) I see the obvious differences, but are the extra RPMs worth the extra money? Is there something else about the SE drives that I don't know that makes the extra money worth it? Use case: Streaming, backup, and such things on my NAS. I could be streaming up to 2 1080p movies at once, while doing a system backup, while downloading files to it (separate from the backup). In such a scenario, I'd prefer more transfer speeds, but I don't know how big of a difference 7200 RPM is over the other options (5900 and 5400). I'll be actively adding choices to the questions as unique answers come up in the thread. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, Vitalius.

I have an LG/GGC-H20L Multi Blu-Ray Drive which plays HD/DVDs. I came with cyberlink power dvd 9 which played both blu-rays and HD/dvd's. I have a good collection for both blu-rays and HD/dvds, well I tried to play my hd/dvd's today and nothing it said I needed an update so it started the update and it went to Power DVD 10 but wait, when I tried to play a blu-ray and or a HD/dvd it said I needed an update? So again I did the update now I have Power DVD 11 and it will play my Blu-Rays but not like they used to? also it won't play my hd/dvd's any more. If someone could help me out with a work around to go back to power dvd 9? or is there a driver or codex I need and if so how and where can I find it? Cyberlink is only telling me to upgrade to Power DVD 14 ultra edition. But they won't say if my HD/dvds will play or not, and LG hasn't responded to my messages yet? Thank you for any help you can offer. this is what I'm have running my system i7 950 @ 3.6ghz GTX 680 12gb corsair 1600mhz 2x Adata ssd's 500gb

Good Morning everyone, I'm the Production Director at a Church in South Florida, our previous PD would store the back up of all our sermons on HDD's and put them in a plastic bin when not being used. so thats going to change... I'm currently looking at getting a Drobo 5D (thunderbolt edition) to store all our sermons and our raw video files for editing. My Question What's the best HDD to use with our Drobo? (we want +2TB drives) Should we go HDD or SSD? If you have any recommendations for Drives or even Raid Arrays to use let me know!

hello, I have 2 the same HDD's of both 1TB each, Now the drive where my OS is stored makes really lot of noise, you know like one of the first ever Hard drives. Is it possible to swap all data on both drives. The os going onto the other drive, and the data from that drive on what used to be the boot drive. sorry if i am not really clear, my english isn't that great. thank you,

Hello, I was wonder if you put an SSD into an external hard drive enclosure, would it function properly? As in would it function without problems? SSDs prefer TRIM to work most effectively but would I be activated if you tried this idea? I want to know this as I want the redundancy with an SSD with the portability of the external drive. I know that solutions such as Angel Bird exist but it would be much cheaper with this method. The SSD I had in mind would be the Samsung 840 with any external drive enclosure. Thanks.

Hi, right now i'm using a dell PERC 6/i with three 2TB drives in raid 5. i want to switch to a larger array with 3 or 4 4TB drives in raid 5. unfortunately the Dell perc 6/i only supports drives up to 2TB. adding extra drives is not the option because i want to use this array for an other project. can someone give me some advice about an affordable Raid card which supports my needs? Thanks in advance

*Please move this to a subtopic, I wasnt sure whether to put this in cases or operating systems* As you may know the H440 has no optical drive bays, however I was planning on installing Windows 7 by disk. I do have a flash drive that is large enough to hold the install so this is what I was thinking: Is it possible to copy everything from the windows installation disk, put it on the flash drive, then boot from that? Would it work? Thanks

I'm building a computer now, but I'm planning on using for the next few years. if I were to eventually build a new computer in 2 to 3 years, would i be able to take an HDD or an SSD from my current one to the new one?

Hey, I have a 500gb HDD and just got two new drives for my pc: a 120gb SSD Samsung 840 EVO and a 1tb WD Blue. I mainly use Windows 7 but I like to have Ubuntu installed also, I have done this before but they were on the same drive. Also, I will try the SteamOS when it gets gold stage (no beta) My problem is that I don't like to have to choose every time that I turn on my pc which OS I want to boot. I thought that a good solution would be to install an OS per drive, so it would be Windows on the SSD, Ubuntu on the 500gb drive and SteamOS on the 1tb drive, then I would change the boot drive when I want to use a different OS. My question is: having multiple OS at different drives could affect the stability? Could it bring issues? Thanks PD: I researched a little about this and the information was confusing…

what is the difference between an SSD and a Hybrid Drive performance wise? i want to get This Drive for My Build but I'm still confused on how well a hybrid drive compares to an average SSD in areas such as boot up, running games, etc.

don't mean to sound like a noob but can i just plugin more drives or do they have to be in a raid of some sorts

I'm building a new PC and I want to use my old hard drives. I have one SSD and two HDDs, I had a HDD as OS drive prior to the purchase of the SSD which is currently my OS drive. I have two system reserved drives, one from the HDD and one from the SSD... Of which I have no idea what to do with Before putting these hard drives into my new build what would I have to do with the OS and drivers currently on my SSD and the two system reserved drives? (there are no drivers on my HDD's)

I have one full drive thats just full of everthing on my pc is there any way i can just move it all to the other hard drive or do i have to download it all again?