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Not my gaming rig, but I just swapped out my 4 - 2TB WD Black drives in my NAS for 4 - 4TB WD Black drives. Still haven't gotten everything copied back onto it yet, but it's coming along nicely so far. Will have about 11TB of usable space.

 

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Not my gaming rig, but I just swapped out my 4 - 2TB WD Black drives in my NAS for 4 - 4TB WD Black drives. Still haven't gotten everything copied back onto it yet, but it's coming along nicely so far. Will have about 11TB of usable space.
Love those drives. Only thing I hate about them is once they get up there in run time, they start to get fussy about raid. Using 4 of them in RAID 0 with nightly backups to my server. No worries if they kick the can then.

But that raid 10 there keeps looking better by the day.
 

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Waiting tell we get closer to SC release to build a new pc you know to be on the safe side...
But right now and dont hate me for saying this but I own a X51. My laptop went out a few years ago and I needed a new pc and I was going to build one but my ex gf bought me the X51 and she didnt know she thought it was a good buy since it said gaming pc. At this point the X51 does really well and I cant atleast play SC right now.
But again Next pc will be a SC build may even put a TEST logo on it we will have to see.
Pretty sleek looking too. I do like the compact design, I'd like something like that in the living room, with enough grunt to play or Steam stream. Looks like a console (but obviously superior)...Nice.
 

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Pretty sleek looking too. I do like the compact design, I'd like something like that in the living room, with enough grunt to play or Steam stream. Looks like a console (but obviously superior)...Nice.
Oh yea great to have in a living room besides not owning a xbox or ps for the games that only come out for them.
 
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Not my gaming rig, but I just swapped out my 4 - 2TB WD Black drives in my NAS for 4 - 4TB WD Black drives. Still haven't gotten everything copied back onto it yet, but it's coming along nicely so far. Will have about 11TB of usable space.
TiL Ubuntu utilises ZFS, forgot Solaris did open source. I considered building my own NAS a while back, looked at this RAID card for expandability but I ended up going for a 5 bay Synology. It has served me well and although it was a bit of a cop out for a techy, it's small, quiet and full of features. Nice web2.0 interface etc. Props for building your own. What sort of hardware are you running it on?
 

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TiL Ubuntu utilises ZFS, forgot Solaris did open source. I considered building my own NAS a while back, looked at this RAID card for expandability but I ended up going for a 5 bay Synology. It has served me well and although it was a bit of a cop out for a techy, it's small, quiet and full of features. Nice web2.0 interface etc. Props for building your own. What sort of hardware are you running it on?
Nothing too fancy for hardware, fanless AMD APU on a micro-atx board (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/E35M1M_PRO/) in a lian-li case (http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-q25/) with 8GB of crucial ram. It's got a rocket raid card in it too in JBOD mode because I have one zfs array for data backup (3 - 1TB drives in raidz1) and one for media (4 - 4TB drives in raidz1). The case holds 8 hdds, but the board only had 5 SATA plugs, hence the rocketraid card (one of the mobo sata plugs is taken up by the SSD for the OS too). It's headless and sits in the hallway and serves up stuff to my htpc and over the net if I feel like it. Also has sabnzbd + sickbeard + couchpotato + headphones for acquisition.

edit: also now that OpenZFS is a thing, zfsonlinux http://zfsonlinux.org/ is great.
 
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Love those drives. Only thing I hate about them is once they get up there in run time, they start to get fussy about raid. Using 4 of them in RAID 0 with nightly backups to my server. No worries if they kick the can then.

But that raid 10 there keeps looking better by the day.
I like ZFS's raidz since it's software implementation, I don't need a really nice RAID controller and I don't have to buy enterprise RAID drives for it (people complain about non-RE4 WD drives and TLER) and also ZFS is fully checksummed to detect data corruption. In ZFS terms, raidz1 is like RAID-5, raidz2 is like RAID-6, and raidz3 is 3 parity disks, which I don't know of a corresponding RAID level to that.
 

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Nothing too fancy for hardware, fanless AMD APU on a micro-atx board (http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/E35M1M_PRO/) in a lian-li case (http://www.lian-li.com/en/dt_portfolio/pc-q25/) with 8GB of crucial ram. It's got a rocket raid card in it too in JBOD mode because I have one zfs array for data backup (3 - 1TB drives in raidz1) and one for media (4 - 4TB drives in raidz1). The case holds 8 hdds, but the board only had 5 SATA plugs, hence the rocketraid card (one of the mobo sata plugs is taken up by the SSD for the OS too). It's headless and sits in the hallway and serves up stuff to my htpc and over the net if I feel like it. Also has sabnzbd + sickbeard + couchpotato + headphones for acquisition.

edit: also now that OpenZFS is a thing, zfsonlinux http://zfsonlinux.org/ is great.
Really nice case, always like lian-li. Sounds like a good setup you've got there. There's not much power behind my synology, I'll have to build something along these lines when the chassis eventually fails, then migrate from ext4 to some of that lovely zfs for Linux. Good stuff!
 

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Really nice case, always like lian-li. Sounds like a good setup you've got there. There's not much power behind my synology, I'll have to build something along these lines when the chassis eventually fails, then migrate from ext4 to some of that lovely zfs for Linux. Good stuff!
Yea, It's got ok power, but not superb. I've messed with subsonic a bit and the system can't quite transcode high bitrate 1080p/720p stuff, but regular 720p and below can all be transcoded on the fly and streamed. If I had a better upstream connection I'd love being able to watch my stuff over the net whenever I wanted.

I also like Lian Li stuff too. When my desktop case finally dies (10 year old Thermaltake case) I'll probably replace it with a Lian Li.
 

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How well do those self contained water cooling setups work? They seem like fairly mature tech at this point, but I'm still using air cooling.
 

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They work fairly well now days. The H80/i is about as good as most higher end air coolers and the H100/i just about matches every high end cooler that you can buy.

Now, over time the pump will die on it but for most units, thats quite a few years down the line.
 
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@SPRNinja Have you delidded your CPU? I am planning of delidding right now. So far I have OC-ed it to 4.6 Ghz on air and planning to switch out my 212 Evo for H105.
 

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How well do those self contained water cooling setups work? They seem like fairly mature tech at this point, but I'm still using air cooling.
I have one and it keeps my i7-4930k at around 35 Celsius (OC'ed to about 3.9). I love it, it's super simple.
 

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my setup is... lets say... not the newest...
its been running since late 2011 and features:
GPU: saphire radeon hd 6870
Ram: 2x G.skill nt series ddr3-1333 4gb
CPU: an intel i 5 2300 with 4x2.8 ghz (with boost i think it was 3.1 or 3.2ghz?)
Soundcard: sound blaster recon 3d which powers a logiteck 5.1 suround system
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61M-D2-B3
with 2 different Samsung monitors: one is a syncmaster s27b370 (27") and the other one a syncmaster 940bf (19")


newly added (my old hdd just gave up)
i have an 128 gb ssd from adata
and a 1 tb big hardrive

all on a 420 w power supply (might wana change that soon)

with the exception off my old harddrive everything runs quite smoth.
no extra fans or anything. the thing is quiet even if it goes in boost :D
and it manages to run bf3 on highest settings and barely manages to run bioshock infinite on the highest :O
I tried to manage the cables but i don't think its a good job XD
oh before i forget my case... its OLD its the same old case my old pc rig had... and the one before :O
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You may want to swap the PSU out in the future, dangerously close to maxing out your 12V line and those units are not know to be the best performers at full load.
 

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I was planing on buying a new one.
I just thought i would buy it with some other parts, since i where planing on upgrading my hardware anyway :D
What would you guys change on my settup? Ram? Gpu? Or rather the cpu?
 
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