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So I have quite a "ghetto" storage setup myself and want know if i'm alone or not  :ph34r:  No this is not your computer setup but your hard drive/SSD setup specific.

 

Currently I have 1x320GB WD Blue Drive 1x250GB WD Caviar Drive and 1x128GB Samsung 840 Pro. Nothing is in RAID and all drives are mounted in there proper locations (except the SSD seeing my case if from 2002)

 

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Please feel free to post your drives specifications such as power on cycles and even drive failure story's cause we all love it when that happens -_-   

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I currently have a 120 gb 850 evo for my os and a 2tb hard drive for storage, but will be getting a 1 tb 850 evo this weekend to replace my hard drive

CPU- i7 5960x MOTHERBOARD- Asus Rampage V extreme RAM- 32gb Corsair Dominator Platinum ddr4 2800mhz GPU-  2X EVGA GTX 980 SC in SLI PSU- Corsair ax860 CASE- Corsair Obsidian 750d COOLING- EK cpu+dual gpu custom loop (ek supremacy evo, dual gtx 980 copper/acetal waterblocks) MOUSE- Logitech g502 proteus core KEYBOARD- Ducky shine 3 cherry mx blue switches and blue LED MONITOR- Samsung u28d590d UHD  STORAGE -  120 gb samsung 850 evo ssd, 960 gb ocz trion ssd OS- Windows 10 pro http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jtP8GX

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120 GB OCZ SSD and 1TB laptop HDD that's actually not bad as a storage drive.

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I currently have a 120 gb 850 evo for my os and a 2tb hard drive for storage, but will be getting a 1 tb 850 evo this weekend to replace my hard drive

Jealous :P Ya bought my SSD about 2 years ago now ($111 & Best WorstBuy), making it feel old ^_^  

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250GB 850 EVO for OS and programs, Another EVO for games that i am currently playing(Yes i know it is near to pointless, however got a good deal) and a 1TB WD Blue for movies old games, isos and a heap of random crap.

Main PC : CPU: I7 6700k @ 4.7GHz MOBO: Asus Maximus Hero VII RAM: 32GB Crucial 2133MHz GPU: GTX 980ti 2-Way SLI Drives: 2 850 Evo 250GB, 1 TB WD Blue CASE: 750D PSU: RM1000W

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I have a 300 GB VelociRaptor from 9 years ago as boot, and a 500 GB WD Caviar Blue as storage. 

 

I got my 240GB OCZ SSD from Newegg in the mail today and it's defective, soo yaaaay, two weeks more or so of 30 sec boots. 

GAMING PC "Ol' Bessie":

Ryzen 7 7800X3D | Radeon RX 9070 XT | Gigabyte B650M AORUS Elite AX | G.Skill Flare X5 6000MT/s CL36 16GBx2 | 5TB of SSD POWER | EVGA SuperNOVA 850W GT | Noctua NH-U14S | Fractal Design Pop! Mini Air | CachyOS

 

Kind Of A Home Lab "Bay":

Ryzen 9 5900XT | Intel ARC A310 | ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS | T-FORCE 3200MT/s 16GBx2 + Corsair 3200MT/s 32GBx2 = 96GB!!! WOW!! | 2TB boot SSD + 8TBx6 HDD RaidZ2 | EVGA SuperNOVA 650W G2 | Phanteks Enthoo Pro M | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

 

The Laptop:

Framework Laptop 13 | Intel i5-1340p | G.Skill Ripjaws 3200MT/s 16GBx2 | Solidigm P44 Pro 2TB | CachyOS

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250gb sandisk plus ssd, 3tb wd hdd, and a $20 usb 3.0/e-sata hard drive dock plus assorted hard drives

Higher frame rate over higher resolution.

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Monitors- Acer XB240H, Asus ROG Swift, Dell P2815Q 2160p  -Keyboard- Corsair k70 RGB -Mouse- Corsair M65 -Mouse Pad- Glorious Extended Pad -Headphone- BeyerDynamic DT990 250ohm, Senheiser HD 518, Fiio E10k

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I have a 300 GB VelociRaptor from 9 years ago as boot, and a 500 GB WD Caviar Blue as storage. 

 

I got my 240GB OCZ SSD from Newegg in the mail today and it's defective, soo yaaaay, two weeks more or so of 30 sec boots. 

Sweet :D Ya my 250GB drive is from a Dell XPS Gen 5 and I have heard good things about the drive, still kickin as my Steam drive! Never expected to use it as much as I have but I do back it up often :)

 

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One SSD for OS

one HDD for gaming/video editing storage

One another HDD portable for my 3d projects for school and some games

USB that includes all my graphic design projects so i can have them on teh go ;)

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I have a 256 gig SSD for boot drive, 1 TB SSHD for games, and a 1 TD external HDD that has nothing on it right now.

 

As for stories, I once caught a friends harddrive on fire using the wrong PSU wire.

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As for stories, I once caught a friends harddrive on fire using the wrong PSU wire.

I had a molex fan wired up wrong in a system causing the 12v to overload and setting the hard drive on fire also  :blink: Out of pure luck the SSD was on a separate rail or something.

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I have a tower. I use a 120gb samsung 840 ssd as a boot drive. 1 TB black WD HDD for programs. 1 TB Blue WD HDD for mass storage (files, videos, pictures). 60 gb crucial m4 ssd (was my old boot drive until I found out I needed more space and it was just a cheap quick buy when SSDs were a bit more expensive) which I use for files I want on my PC from my OneDrive account.

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im rockin a single 850 evo 500g =]

I have one of these too and windows 10 starts in 5 seconds, great drive.

 

I also use a 960GB crucial SSD for storage and more programs, with a 3TB HDD for TV/Movies.

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I currently have a 120 gb 850 evo for my os and a 2tb hard drive for storage, but will be getting a 1 tb 850 evo this weekend to replace my hard drive

Use that 2tb HDD as a mass storage for files and videos. You can put all the programs on your SSD then.

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1, 2 and 3TB Seagates, 360GB OCZ SSD as the boot & game drive.

 

 

While I'm posting this; the 1TB & 3TB drives both have reallocated sector errors, and the 3TB has current pending sector & off-line uncorrectable sector errors ... should I be worried?

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I have one of these too and windows 10 starts in 5 seconds, great drive.

 

I also use a 960GB crucial SSD for storage and more programs, with a 3TB HDD for TV/Movies.

yea i couldn’t believe how fast windows 10 startup is on my 850 evo i hit the power button and im looking at my desk top before i even get to my chair i considered doing raid 0 just because lawls! but i didn’t know if that would make start up any faster so now im putting the second 500g evo i got into my old laptop because that takes like 40 sec to start and i can handle it now that iv been spoiled with a 5 sec start up

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1, 2 and 3TB Seagates, 360GB OCZ SSD as the boot & game drive.

While I'm posting this; the 1TB & 3TB drives both have reallocated sector errors, and the 3TB has current pending sector & off-line uncorrectable sector errors ... should I be worried?

Love the hard drive name :P But ya most likely your fine but probably best to keep backups and look at getting new drives. Never had good luck with Segates at work and at home (don't want to start a war) but ya :)

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On main PC:

480 GB Sandisk Extreme 2

2TB Western Digital Black

1TB Western Digital Black

I plan on removing the blacks and giving them to a friend. I'll probably just get a second SSD to use as a scratch disk and have the main PC as all SSD (All of my data got moved to the NAS)

 

NAS:

240GB Sandisk Extreme Pro

Six 4TB Western Digital Reds in RAID10

Two 4TB Western Digital RE SAS drives in RAID1 (Holds shadow copies from main array).

Future plans include buying the other 22 4TB RE SAS drives to fill up my server and removing the Reds (They'll probably be used for backup and shadow copies in a external enclosure hooked to the NAS). Maybe another SSD for a scratch disk.

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Use that 2tb HDD as a mass storage for files and videos. You can put all the programs on your SSD then.

The reason I'm getting the ssd is so I can get rid of the hard drive noise. It's the only thing that I can still hear in my PC

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The reason I'm getting the ssd is so I can get rid of the hard drive noise. It's the only thing that I can still hear in my PC

LOL you can hear that? I can't hear mine. I can hear my fans a lil bit but it's still kinda quite. I can turn down the RPM of them but I like to have a bit more performance. I normally have headphones on anyway.

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Server

Old photo, got a new monitor and ditched Ubuntu.

 

60GB - Kingston V300 SSD - Windows 10 OS and Apps

 

3TB - WD Red 

4TB - WD Red

4TB - WD Red

4TB - WD Red - 15TB Storage Space (Archive)

 

3TB - WD Red

4TB - WD Red

4TB - WD Red

4TB - WD Red - 15TB Storage Space (Backup)

 

 

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LOL you can hear that? I can't hear mine. I can hear my fans a lil bit but it's still kinda quite. I can turn down the RPM of them but I like to have a bit more performance. I normally have headphones on anyway.

Yeah I'm Obsessed with making my PC as silent as possible

CPU- i7 5960x MOTHERBOARD- Asus Rampage V extreme RAM- 32gb Corsair Dominator Platinum ddr4 2800mhz GPU-  2X EVGA GTX 980 SC in SLI PSU- Corsair ax860 CASE- Corsair Obsidian 750d COOLING- EK cpu+dual gpu custom loop (ek supremacy evo, dual gtx 980 copper/acetal waterblocks) MOUSE- Logitech g502 proteus core KEYBOARD- Ducky shine 3 cherry mx blue switches and blue LED MONITOR- Samsung u28d590d UHD  STORAGE -  120 gb samsung 850 evo ssd, 960 gb ocz trion ssd OS- Windows 10 pro http://pcpartpicker.com/p/jtP8GX

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Yeah I'm Obsessed with making my PC as silent as possible

I put an old IBM drive in my system just to make it loud :P To the average person my computer is a piece of junk from the 90s.

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