Recent content by Sir Aaron

The SFF case limits some of my options as I have it configured. But mostly I was interested in answering the question as to what I should be putting on the SSD drive and how much room would be adequate to fulfill that task. I think I have that answer.

Thanks. I use crashplan for generic backup and SmugMug for photos and videos. I'm going with a Z170 chipset which will support raid (I assume that means without an additional raid card). But honestly, I'm just not a huge fan of raid. Internet speeds are so good that downloading backups is...

I've been nursing along an old Core 2 Duo Wolfdale system that I assembled in late 2008. Eight years has been a pretty good run. I've replaced/upgraded every part except the MOBO and processor. I think it is time to move forward with building a new PC even though most of my "computing" has...

I've been nursing along an old Core 2 Duo Wolfdale system that I assembled in late 2008. Eight years has been a pretty good run. My computer just seems horribly slow (relatively speaking LOL) and I'm thinking there's nothing much I can do to speed it up. So I've been looking into building a...