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Processor | AMD Ryzen 3800X / AMD 8350 |
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Motherboard | ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming X / Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 Revision 3.0 |
Cooling | Stock / Corsair H100 |
Memory | 32GB / 24GB |
Video Card(s) | Sapphire RX 6800 / AMD Radeon 290X (Toggling until 6950XT) |
Storage | C:\ 1TB SSD, D:\ RAID-1 1TB SSD, 2x4TB-RAID-1 |
Display(s) | Samsung U32E850R |
Case | be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Black rev. 2 / Fractal Design |
Audio Device(s) | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi |
Power Supply | EVGA Supernova 1300G2 / EVGA Supernova 850G+ |
Mouse | Logitech M-U0007 |
Keyboard | Logitech G110 / Logitech G110 |
I clone drives under normal circumstances which reduces my downtime from 3 days if I have to set things up manually (without my tweaks and AppData files available) to as little as an hour plus some Windows updates. I finally managed to update from AM3+ to AM4 and I think I'll wait for Samsung to debut their 2TB PCI-Express 4.0 NVMe drives as I've never had trouble with them in RAID mode and it'll seriously help my current reliance on SATA get knocked down from 10 ports (older storage limited to 4TB at the time of purchase).
That being said with NVMe drives I'll still be able to plug in a drive in my 5.25 external adapter that gives me a 2.5, 3.5 and 2x USB 3.0 ports. That being said I can also buy a USB to NVMe drive adapter if and when I need to clone drives without removing the motherboard heatsink that covers the NVMe drives. However I am curious if there are any external 5.25 bay adapters that allow hot-swapping NVMe drives or at least easy access to remove if NVMe is not hot-swappable? I've seen something along those lines with server setups though I'm not ready to buy dedicated hardware for my business and I'm sure that there are form factor differences.
Also apologies to the mods if this should be in the storage forum instead though I figured this is more related to cases or at least a half-way point.
That being said with NVMe drives I'll still be able to plug in a drive in my 5.25 external adapter that gives me a 2.5, 3.5 and 2x USB 3.0 ports. That being said I can also buy a USB to NVMe drive adapter if and when I need to clone drives without removing the motherboard heatsink that covers the NVMe drives. However I am curious if there are any external 5.25 bay adapters that allow hot-swapping NVMe drives or at least easy access to remove if NVMe is not hot-swappable? I've seen something along those lines with server setups though I'm not ready to buy dedicated hardware for my business and I'm sure that there are form factor differences.
Also apologies to the mods if this should be in the storage forum instead though I figured this is more related to cases or at least a half-way point.