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    Drive setup advice

    Posted by James Paulley on September 17, 2015 at 9:50 am

    Can you advise me on my drive setup? The drives I have are:
    2x Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
    Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
    Sandisk Extreme 120GB
    1TB Seagate HDD

    My Gigabyte Z77-UD5H only has 2x 6GBs chipset ports and then 4x 3GBs chipset ports. It also has 3x 6GBs Marvell ports. I’ve read that the Marvell ports are best avoiding?

    The set up I was considering is:

    6GBs: AE Performance cache – Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
    6GBs: Project files/footage – Samsung 850 Pro 256GB
    3GBs: Windows/Apps – Samsung 840 Pro 256GB
    3GBs: Renders/Output – Sandisk Extreme 120GB
    3GBs: Archive/storage – 1TB Seagate HDD

    Or is there a better configuration than this?

    Thanks!

    James Paulley replied 10 years, 8 months ago 53,803 Members · 1 Reply
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  • James Paulley

    September 18, 2015 at 8:52 am

    Thanks Dave. My projects are not super long, so it’s not so much size I need, just as much speed as I can get out of that motherboard.

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