specme Harddrive setup

bakes0310

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Basically i want new harddrives to go with windows 7 thats out soon.
Budget is £450 and i would like 2 hard drives one for OS and the other for everything else...basically games:)
 
Ben-Irvine93 said:
Here you go. This is for the OS and games!
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-001-CS
Then this is for anything else, you can change things around if you wanted to.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-081-SA&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=940
Put 2 of them sammy's in raid, you got a great hard drive setup there.
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Cheers
Some questions though:

1)SSD hard drives are they easy to install, is it a simple case of just plugging in like a normal harddrive?
2)I noticed for around about £20 more i can get the F1 version of the samsung drives and still be in my budget would that be a better option?
3) How do you setup raid what does it mean?
 
Ive just ordered the following:
Corsair Performance P128 128GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive
Samsung SpinPoint F1 RAID 500GB
Samsung SpinPoint F1 RAID 500GB
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium - Retail

What an expensive sunday.

Couple questions though:
1) Is putting in a SSD inside your pc just like putting in a normal haddrive?

2)With my order i put the delivery date as the 23rd will that mean the whole of my order will come in one go, as windows 7 is out on the 22nd?
 
1) Yep, you plus it in as a normal sata hard drive, and you don't need to have a caddy or anything. Simply put it on top of one of your 3.5" hard drive.
2) You may think the f1 is better but it's not mate, Samsung F3's are the quickest 500gb hard drives you can get.
3)Have a look at your user manual on the motherboard, it's very simple. When setting up the Raid 0, make sure it's the 2 f3's and set the data striping as "128kb". If you are going to install windows xp, you will need to have a floppy drive to put the raid drivers onto them as windows xp donesn't reconize Raids. But if it's windows vista or 7, you will be fine. Windows automatically finds the drivers fot you. Good luck :D
 
A bit of mistake there my friend, you should have picked the f3's. Mistake there mate, on Monday ring Ocul up and ask them can you change the 2 F1's to F3's. And depending if they have all the stuff you have ordered instock, you may get it all at once. I don't know if you will get the windows 7 with the hd's becasue many people have pre-ordered it.
 
but like I said, ring them as soon as possible to change the F1's to F3's. If you can't get hold of them, then you get the f1's, don't install them or anything, ocuk will replace them with the f1's if you ask to change.
 
Ill phone up tomorrow i hope it aint gonna be a lot of hassle, ill also enquire about if i get a copy of windows 7 in with the hardrives when they come.

EDIT: If for some reason i cant change the F1's are they rubbish or are they ok, keeping in mind they will be used for games?
 
Ben-Irvine93 said:
When setting up the Raid 0, make sure it's the 2 f3's and set the data striping as "128kb".
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Surely it would be better to mirror (RAID 1) the other two drives for some redundancy? RAID 0 would be fine if he was using them for his main drives ie OS, games etc, but that's not really needed as he'll be using the SSD for that.

For the budget I'd get the SSD (or even a couple in RAID 0) and a couple of TB drives in RAID 1 for videos, music, pictures etc, at least then you won't potentially lose all your important data if a hard drive fails.
 
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well what brilliant customer service, ive just phoned up and switched my F1 harddrives to F3's and on top of that i will get windows 7 arriving with the rest of my stuff on the 23rd. Result:D
 
Well my order has arrived. Im looking at my SSD and its tiny i thought it was gonna be the size of a hard drive. Anyway how am i gonna stick inside my case, can i just sit it ontop one of my harddrives or will it get too hot?

Edit: what wires do i use to plug it in, it doesnt seem to have any with it?
Also whats the best way to format my old harddrives, shall i just put windows 7 in and use that to format them?
 
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