| Re: New Build - Computer [message #446110 is a reply to message #446012] |
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Homey
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| Hex wrote on Thu, 21 April 2011 05:50 |
No you don't, I doubt it would use any more than 450w (true not peak)
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the 470 is not light on power consumption. I wouldn't risk going that low on a quad core system with a power hungry fermi card, no way. Maxing out a PSU is a terrible idea. 600 seems like the perfect sweet spot.
IOPs over speed is a great choice. Looks like a good rig. I understand the necessity for raid 1 if it's a work PC. If it's that important you should be doing backups to an external to be safe IMO.
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| Re: New Build - Computer [message #446123 is a reply to message #446120] |
Sat, 23 April 2011 04:39 |
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| EvilWhiteDragon wrote on Sat, 23 April 2011 07:09 |
| Homey wrote on Sat, 23 April 2011 08:59 |
| Hex wrote on Thu, 21 April 2011 05:50 |
No you don't, I doubt it would use any more than 450w (true not peak)
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the 470 is not light on power consumption. I wouldn't risk going that low on a quad core system with a power hungry fermi card, no way. Maxing out a PSU is a terrible idea. 600 seems like the perfect sweet spot.
IOPs over speed is a great choice. Looks like a good rig. I understand the necessity for raid 1 if it's a work PC. If it's that important you should be doing backups to an external to be safe IMO.
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RAID is not a backup heh.... If a virus comes along you'll still lose data if the virus wants to. RAID only offers you speed an security against a disk failure.
Also, if you delete a file on RAID1/0/5/10/w/e it's still gone. With backups you can retrieve them, not with RAID (recover tools don't count as often enough it's not possible to recover.
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Yes, that's why I said it's good to do both. RAID is good in case of a disk failure, tbh unlikely with SSDs. Backups for non hardware issues.
Any important data I have is on multiple drives and online. If it's really important it shouldn't be inside the same pc.
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| Re: New Build - Computer [message #446124 is a reply to message #446123] |
Sat, 23 April 2011 05:23 |
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| Homey wrote on Sat, 23 April 2011 13:39 |
| EvilWhiteDragon wrote on Sat, 23 April 2011 07:09 |
| Homey wrote on Sat, 23 April 2011 08:59 |
| Hex wrote on Thu, 21 April 2011 05:50 |
No you don't, I doubt it would use any more than 450w (true not peak)
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the 470 is not light on power consumption. I wouldn't risk going that low on a quad core system with a power hungry fermi card, no way. Maxing out a PSU is a terrible idea. 600 seems like the perfect sweet spot.
IOPs over speed is a great choice. Looks like a good rig. I understand the necessity for raid 1 if it's a work PC. If it's that important you should be doing backups to an external to be safe IMO.
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RAID is not a backup heh.... If a virus comes along you'll still lose data if the virus wants to. RAID only offers you speed an security against a disk failure.
Also, if you delete a file on RAID1/0/5/10/w/e it's still gone. With backups you can retrieve them, not with RAID (recover tools don't count as often enough it's not possible to recover.
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Yes, that's why I said it's good to do both. RAID is good in case of a disk failure, tbh unlikely with SSDs. Backups for non hardware issues.
Any important data I have is on multiple drives and online. If it's really important it shouldn't be inside the same pc.
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I suspected as such, but it wasn't really clear imho, and there are enough people that think their data is safe with just RAID.
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