any computer geeks in da house?

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Originally Posted by cuda

I understand that, but I never .. NEVER keep file where my OS is installed. never. Well, at least nothing I am not willing to lose. I have extra HDD's that will be keeping that stuff, so if I corrupt my OS install, its not a big deal to just reformat and go again.

I keep images of my fresh install as well, so I should be good to go.

Trust me, I work in IT. I have seen how unstable RAID setups can be, I come prepared with first hand experience.

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Yes but there is still a problem with that. If you have a hardware failure!

What state the OS is in does not matter if the drive the data is on fails.
I am an IT guy to and I see it alot People put to much faith in a single piece of hardware.

If you Go with a RAID configuration atleast if a drive fails you probably can save your data.... Unless your like the Dumb guy that called us a couple weeks ago.

RAID5 3 hard drives No hot swap spare. Calls because his server crashed. Never checked it, no proactive maintnence, he even stopped checking the backups.
Got there to find that 2 of the 3 drives had failed. Well there goes the purpose of having RAID5

Logs show 1st drive failed 4 months before the 2nd one went He never noticed the Error lights on the HotSwap Drives. On top of that The backups were all over written with corrupt data!

Guess what He was screwed. The sad thing was he was the company IT guy and he actually got fired for his neglegence!

So if you really care about your data use some kind of Fault tolerace config and regular backups to a seperate device or media. Also a little proactive goes along way. I would rather provent it from happening than try to recover after it already has.

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Originally Posted by JAMills

Yes but there is still a problem with that. If you have a hardware failure!

What state the OS is in does not matter if the drive the data is on fails.
I am an IT guy to and I see it alot People put to much faith in a single piece of hardware.

If you Go with a RAID configuration atleast if a drive fails you probably can save your data.... Unless your like the Dumb guy that called us a couple weeks ago.

RAID5 3 hard drives No hot swap spare. Calls because his server crashed. Never checked it, no proactive maintnence, he even stopped checking the backups.
Got there to find that 2 of the 3 drives had failed. Well there goes the purpose of having RAID5

Logs show 1st drive failed 4 months before the 2nd one went He never noticed the Error lights on the HotSwap Drives. On top of that The backups were all over written with corrupt data!

Guess what He was screwed. The sad thing was he was the company IT guy and he actually got fired for his neglegence!

So if you really care about your data use some kind of Fault tolerace config and regular backups to a seperate device or media. Also a little proactive goes along way. I would rather provent it from happening than try to recover after it already has.

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I guess I don't understand your concern. The extra HDDs placed in tea machine for keeping important files is not enough? Maybe I should also mention that if a file really mean a lot to me, I place it on one of my other PCs as well. To be honest, most of my "Important" file are on my PC at work, and my gamers at home if just for tinkering.

And if you want to get into stories .. I have got some doozies. For example, if you work at a manufacturing company and you rely on a software package for daily operations ... do not over write the database storing all the companies information at 2pm .... and then have no explaination as to why you have no backup of the database.

OH, and you may find this humorous, I got a call from our companies HR manager (you know, the person responsible for my 401k and paychecks, health insurance and such) that her monitor was "acting funny" So, I went to check it out. Turns out that before the moniker can display anything, you need to frst turn on the PC sending it signals!

I received the case today ... and I think I am in love.

LOVE THE CASE!

and I picked out my CPU cooler, after much back and forth the the company that makes it to make sure it will work (with an adapter they are sending me).

Here it is!

Noctua NH-C12P
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It begins.

I will be installing the PSU and working on how to run the power ... stealthily later tonight. This was just me hanging the HDDs and getting so pictures of it bare so you can all see it progress.

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Added PSU and started my wiring scheming.

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I GOT A GIFT! (or .. I got a loan)

I work in an IT department at a manufacturing company. My boss and peers all are computer geeks like me, so I went to my boss and asked him if he has any advice on how to make the wiring look neat. He, also being a car nut, just happened to have some spare Auto wire loom lying around, and he brough it in for me to try.

THis is how my first try turned out .. just testing the basic ideas I have, and I think it should work well. I still have some humps to get over, but for the most part .. the tubing should help my routing a lot.

ON TO THE IMAGES

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The rest of the pictures are showing how I plan to run the wires from the lower level up the the motherboard and GPU ... and 4 storage HDDs.

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I'm going to keep updating this whether you guys like it or not!

^.^

New parts arrive!

All I am missing now is the RAM and the second HDD. Both will be here tomorrow, but until then .. I got PENTY of work to do.

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Mmmm.. Computers. I love me a nice computer. I have on built on a piece of paper. Gonna cost me a pretty penny to put it together, so i'm holding off.

I've been a computer geek for like 21 years. And i'm only 25. Ha! My dad got me started in the right direction.

I love that case. If I wasn't working on vegaproject, i'd spend more time trying to get me a computer set up.

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Originally Posted by Texas Dan

Mmmm.. Computers. I love me a nice computer. I have on built on a piece of paper. Gonna cost me a pretty penny to put it together, so i'm holding off.

I've been a computer geek for like 21 years. And i'm only 25. Ha! My dad got me started in the right direction.

I love that case. If I wasn't working on vegaproject, i'd spend more time trying to get me a computer set up.

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Ah yes, the Build on paper. I have many of those. Though, most of mine are done as Wish Lists in Newegg. I have always been interested in technology, but didn't really get into it until ... man, I think I was 16 when I bought and built my own PC. It was a CRAP build, but I learned a lot through it, and each build since has gotten better and better.

COMPUTER NAME SHARING (in order from oldest to newest)

CX5 (Athlon 64 3400+, nvidia 6600)
CX6 (New case, new name .. I think I upgraded the video card)
Brutus (AthlonX2 4000+, ATI X1900XT)
Sol (Athlon 3700+, SFF. Used to just surf the nets)
Ate (C2D 6400, SLi 8800GTS 320)
Trinity (Core i7, GTX 285)

It's running. I have some new pictures to post, but need some time to get them in order.

All I can say is ... AWESOME! I am happy with what I have seen so far. There is an issue with the RAM and it playing nicely with my Motherboard. I will go into length about that in my next post, but .. just had to say ..... YAY!

I used to be in love with Alien's casing....no longer!

That is the coolest case I have ever seen, good luck.