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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 |
My future is looking bright financially and I'll be upgrading a lot of my system in the coming months. Before I get in to specifics this is what I use my rig for (my rig's specs are under my profile on the left):
Because higher capacity SSDs are generally available in the enterprise segment I imagine that Threadripper motherboards don't have SAS. When the 4950X comes out that is what I'll upgrade to, I don't need Threadripper as I don't run much in the way of audio/video encoding (I do, but not with all the money in the world to justify it). I just came across a 16 port SAS controller for $471 on Newegg. Here is what I'd like performance wise:
I'm looking forward to Samsung's TLC 4TB NVMe drives coming out soon for RAID. I'm not sure about the SAS cards though there are 16TB SAS enterprise SSD drives out.
For the past few years when (not if) Windows takes a dump I just plug in a spare SSD like a floppy disc, recover what I need, clone over and I'm back up and running sans a few updates in less than an hour. My main goal is to generally avoid having to mess with my main rig once the new parts become available because as I much as I enjoy tinkering I enjoy making money a hundred times more.
This will be going on to my 3800X / X570 rig and I expect to be doing this sometime roughly around mid-October. Suggestions please?
- Web Development primarily, about ~60% of the time at least.
- Reading, research, ~10%.
- Entertainment besides gaming, basically eating my meals and enjoying something, about ~10% of my time.
- Gaming, about ~5% of my time, I'll go weeks without gaming sometimes but money pays the bills.
- I don't encode audio/video often, I do though it's negligible.
- C:\ can be a single NVMe SSD, likely a 4TB drive.
- D:\ will be two NVMe SSDs in RAID 1, likely a 4TB drive.
- E:\ will be a mass storage of at least 8TB though I'd prefer 16TB.
- The C:\ and D:\ drives will be the same so I can interchange them if necessary.
- I will have two cold spares for the C:\ and D:\.
- I will image one of the the C:\ and D:\ every couple of months for cold storage.
- I will have two cold spares for the E:\.
- I will image one of the E:\ spares every couple of months for cold storage.
Because higher capacity SSDs are generally available in the enterprise segment I imagine that Threadripper motherboards don't have SAS. When the 4950X comes out that is what I'll upgrade to, I don't need Threadripper as I don't run much in the way of audio/video encoding (I do, but not with all the money in the world to justify it). I just came across a 16 port SAS controller for $471 on Newegg. Here is what I'd like performance wise:
- C:\, D:\ will be NVMe without a doubt and that controller will definitely be running in RAID mode. I'd like to get the transfer rates up and I favor Samsung as I've had trouble in the past with Crucial setting a couple SSD drives in RAID 1, no problems with Samsung and I figure that they'll have TLC 4TB NVMe drives out in a couple months tops by now.
- E:\ will likely be an addon PCI-Express card and I only need two drives. SAS bus allows a faster transfer rate, I think ~1 gigabyte a second? I'm not sure as it'll be my first experience with SAS. I'm not sure how much difference one SAS controller is from another though I'm always willing to spend more for quality. I can live with a ~5X improvement over my current mechanical RAID 1 setup.
I'm looking forward to Samsung's TLC 4TB NVMe drives coming out soon for RAID. I'm not sure about the SAS cards though there are 16TB SAS enterprise SSD drives out.
For the past few years when (not if) Windows takes a dump I just plug in a spare SSD like a floppy disc, recover what I need, clone over and I'm back up and running sans a few updates in less than an hour. My main goal is to generally avoid having to mess with my main rig once the new parts become available because as I much as I enjoy tinkering I enjoy making money a hundred times more.
This will be going on to my 3800X / X570 rig and I expect to be doing this sometime roughly around mid-October. Suggestions please?