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Dec 16, 2003 | 08:09 PM

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ChrisB

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Originally posted by boominZ24:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Chris B:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by dodgeram:
well the reason for the 3 drives is this

one raptor for my main system drive, holds the OS and all programs/games ect and is the main drive for video editing ( as I understand a fast drive makes for faster video editing and fast load times on games ect)

the second raptor for pvr duties should give me about 20hours of record time on high quality(everthing I read tells me I want the fastest drive possible for high quality video recording with no frame dropout)

the 120 gig is for mass storage and system back up, it'll hold all the video files I want to keep (I like keeping music videos), my mp3's and I'll do a system backup on there too

well as for the amd I have no experience with em and probaly have seen too much marketing so I believe the p4 is better ...... I'll have to do some reasearch on that

I want to build a machine that I will keep for a long time with no need for upgrades so I figured go all out the first time

as for the desktop case I'm gonna have this in my living room in the stereo stand, I kind of want it to blend in

here's another case I found
http://www.modsynergy.com/Review%20108.htm

it looks a bit better

IMO it would be smarter (and possibly cheaper) to just go get one BIG hard drive.. then partition it to suite your needs.. [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]Till somethin happens to it, like a roommate or someone or whatever fries it lol Happened to a friend of mine he couldn't get anything off the HD it was fried he had a lot of crap on it too lol Partioning is great but I'd prefer two separate hard drives and partion them, externals are fun [/QUOTE]Most times hard drives will stop working is either from age/use, or abuse.. and either way both drives will most likely die close to each other.. just out of curiousity how did your friend's drive die?