I've been using 6x Seagate 3TB drives for a year and a half now in a software (MDADM on Debian Stable) RAID-10 configuration, and it has worked wonders for me. Not a single drive has had any issues thus far, although I have performed a practice rebuild for safety. My problem now is my case is...
I'm amazed these are still an item! I bought the Take 5.1 (and a second of the energy sub from costco for $100) for something similar 5 years ago. Still use it in my college apartment. Great little speakers for anyone looking at making their first attempt at a non-'surround sound in a box' setup!
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Someone does, but not quite that number of drives. Lian-Li q25B. I have a silverstone ST50F-P in it, 7 3.5" drives, a 2.5" boot drive, and I've got two eSata with port multiplier support for expansion cases if I need/want it. As my desktop no longer has 3.5" drives, I wanted a desktop that was...
I'd say leave the NCASE on the front, same size, laser engraved. Add a small M1 on the bottom left or right of the front panel, smaller in font than the M1. Or remove the M1 entirely. But I do like the laser engraving.
Sounds a lot more expensive than any of the other options.
I still think silkscreened text on the front panel would be slick. I'm talking like 6MM tall text on the tabs beside the I/O. As other's have said, you can just remove it with a sugar cube if you don't want it.
Erm, Haswell is actually a 'tock', rather than a 'tic'. It is on the same 22nm as Ivy Bridge is, and thus designed to have significant changes (such as the integrated voltage regulation). The thing is, the significant changes are primarily focused for mobile, as the company as a whole is...
Too true. Or just use a USB DAC. It should last you a lot longer than a motherboard does, and can be used with any computer. I'm still not even sure what the point of the riser card for what I assume is voltage regulation. I plan on going Gigabyte for their typically easier hackintosh-ability.
Not sure about Lightroom, but if you deal with RAW, a lot of photo managers will immediately convert a version to a high quality JPEG for easier viewing and navigation in the photo browser, switching to viewing the RAW only when you are editing. This conversion takes CPU.
I'd enjoy seeing NCASE and M-1 printed on the bottom left and right tabs of the front panel, beside the IO. I think something that isn't mounted but instead etched (and filled possibly) such that it remains flush would be best.
Too true. A USB DAC from a music company will sound better than most anything from a PC company, at least for music. If you use your system to drive a 5.1 via analog, you may want a PC sound card, but if you are just using HDMI -> receiver, there is no point in a sound card as you should be...