Hi,
I have 4GB RAM, an E6600 & 2 500GB hard drives spare. It'll cost me around £200 to get a really decent PC going as I just need motherboard, GPU, case, PSU.
I also have 2x 1.5TB drives in my current PC that I use for storage (1x store, 1x backup), so they'll be moved into this new PC. I am also very tempted by a 64GB SSD, so my current 2x250GB may also be put in this NAS.
I'll probably buy a nice quick, smaller drive for C: so I'll have a total of 5 drives in the system to start with (possibly 7!). 7 may be going a bit far though as I can't see any case having many more than 10, at a push? Saying that though, larger drives are 'on the horizon', so if I really did need the space in the future I'd simply replace the 250GB drives with some 5TBs or whatever's biggest/best at the time
Can anyone recommend me a case for all this, bearing in mind I'll be adding more drives in the future - I can see myself ordering 2 2TB drives fairly soon. The case doesn't have to be small, it just needs lots of hard drive space.
I'm thinking maybe this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-212-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29 (or the advanced version, I still need to compare the differences)
plus something like this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CM-011-LL
Makes a total of 10 which should do me well considering even with my 250GB drives in there I will still have 3 slots spare.
Thanks.
I have 4GB RAM, an E6600 & 2 500GB hard drives spare. It'll cost me around £200 to get a really decent PC going as I just need motherboard, GPU, case, PSU.
I also have 2x 1.5TB drives in my current PC that I use for storage (1x store, 1x backup), so they'll be moved into this new PC. I am also very tempted by a 64GB SSD, so my current 2x250GB may also be put in this NAS.
I'll probably buy a nice quick, smaller drive for C: so I'll have a total of 5 drives in the system to start with (possibly 7!). 7 may be going a bit far though as I can't see any case having many more than 10, at a push? Saying that though, larger drives are 'on the horizon', so if I really did need the space in the future I'd simply replace the 250GB drives with some 5TBs or whatever's biggest/best at the time
Can anyone recommend me a case for all this, bearing in mind I'll be adding more drives in the future - I can see myself ordering 2 2TB drives fairly soon. The case doesn't have to be small, it just needs lots of hard drive space.
I'm thinking maybe this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-212-CM&groupid=701&catid=7&subcat=29 (or the advanced version, I still need to compare the differences)
plus something like this:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CM-011-LL
Makes a total of 10 which should do me well considering even with my 250GB drives in there I will still have 3 slots spare.
Thanks.
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