Storage

For anyone who has been out to a LanOC event, you will know we are all about the storage. So for Crush, I needed to have just the first mix of drives. I knew I needed enough space to save all of my games on and the 3TB in The Fridge filled up long ago so I went with the biggest possible drive (at the time) from Seagate. Their helium filled 10TB drive has all of the capacity that I could possibly need and more. With such a high capacity drive I also didn’t need to get a second hard drive, keeping the space used up in the bottom of the case as open as possible for future expansion.

While the drive is going to be packed down in the bottom of the build, never to be seen again, it sure does look good for a hard drive. The casing is all machined and sexy, check it out.

With spinning storage out of the way, I did have to find an SSD to put in the build for the OS. The first one that came to mind was the 1.2TB Intel 750 Series drive that wasn’t really getting used to its full potential in The Fridge so I pulled it out for Crush. On top of that, I was also going to want a drive to install often used games on and I still wanted to use the M.2 slot on our motherboard so I dug out the Toshiba OCZ RD400 that I reviewed back in August. Being an M.2 drive it wasn’t going to take up any extra space and would be hidden up under our video cards. I will say though that this plan didn’t really work out when I started building the PC. I wasn’t able to get Windows installed on the Intel drive and I ended up putting windows on the still very fast OCZ RD400. This meant the Intel 750 Series drive moved over to be used for highly used games and I also used it as a scratch drive for editing as well to speed things up.

While the three drive configuration is on the overkill side for this build, it wouldn’t be if I wasn’t also using a NAS on the network. All of my important files, movies, and TV shows are all on the network. If not I would have to build another huge PC just to fit all of the storage capacity I would need. So keep that in mind when building a new PC. Network storage helps move noisy and heavy hard drives out of your PC and into a closet.

Keep an eye out for next week where I go over the last few components in the Crush project build and start doing a little customization. 

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You might call him obsessed or just a hardcore geek. Wes's obsession with gaming hardware and gadgets isn't anything new, he could be found taking things apart even as a child. When not poking around in PC's he can be found playing League of Legends, Awesomenauts, or Civilization 5 or watching a wide variety of TV shows and Movies. A car guy at heart, the same things that draw him into tweaking cars apply when building good looking fast computers. If you are interested in writing for Wes here at LanOC you can reach out to him directly using our contact form.