Any tweaks to this build? Almost exclusivity gaming with some VMs set up for pen testing.

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MrWilson

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Skynet is calling, it wants its leader back!
Hard to go wrong when spending this sort of money.
Would question the need for RAID, it's not used very much anymore, and then only having 1TB of storage is a little on the low side.
Silver warranty for a fiver is also a no brainer at this sort of budget.
 
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MrWilson said:
Skynet is calling, it wants its leader back!
Hard to go wrong when spending this sort of money.
Would question the need for RAID, it's not used very much anymore, and then only having 1TB of storage is a little on the low side.
Silver warranty for a fiver is also a no brainer at this sort of budget.
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Raid is more a meh might as well, I have a NAS and some spare SSDs for stuff I don't want to lose. Good shout on the warranty though!
They don't have these as custom loops so later I'll have to do that myself but that's the fun part :p
Ram was the main concern as I have not had an AMD CPU since the FX-51 back in the day, so totally unsure if 4 or 2 dims is a thing with Ryzen (My 9900k really didn't like 2 dimms in the Aorus Master due to the topology so my XMP would fail)
 
SpyderTracks

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Carcer said:
I do, a Synology DS720+ or am I missing something here?
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What's the requirement for RAID if you've got a NAS? RAID on a desktop is a huge no no these days, actually reduces security, not improves it, that's what NAS drives are for.
 
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SpyderTracks said:
What's the requirement for RAID if you've got a NAS? RAID on a desktop is a huge no no these days, actually reduces security, not improves it, that's what NAS drives are for.
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Raid is 0 Stripping and has no bearing on the security (it's actually bad for data integrity but nothing on these would need back ups as it will be OS and games), it's more because benchmarks for storage cool.
Do you mean RAID 1? which would be redundancy where data is mirrored across 2 identical drives?
 
stegor

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Not sure RAID 0 is going to make much difference for gaming other than the initial load. Better to get a smaller OS drive and then a larger separate gaming drive.
 
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