New PC a coming - pick holes in my components!

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At the moment the kind of data I would be shifting to a networked drive would be in the region of 200-500 megabytes although that may increase in the future
 
The problem with online is the initial backup. I think mine took around a week on a 16Mbit up connection. 2Mbit up = 900Mbytes/hr best case. If you have 100Gbytes to backup initially, that's going to be a week or so solid. After that, it's just differential backup.
 
I take it that is for online e.g cloud and networked e.g hard drives off site?
Sorry for all the questions, proper data backup is a new concept to me
 
The speed of the backup is generally limited by the connection between the two endpoints. The exception is when the two drives are hanging off the same motherboard when the speed is limited by the HDD speed.

Same motherboard ~ 125Mbytes/sec
Gigabit network ~ 90-100Mbytes/sec (assuming the enclosures have good disk controllers and network interfaces)
USB2 ~ 20-25 Mbytes/sec
100Mbit network ~ 6-8Mbytes/sec
Wireless ~ Depends on your connection speed
Cloud ~ network speed/8 (as your Internet connection is quoted in Mbits/sec, not Mbytes/sec)

Not sure what is achievable via USB3 but I'd expect it to be close to 100Mbytes/sec.
 
With that budget I'd get a bigger SSD.

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The23rdman said:
With that budget I'd get a bigger SSD.

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It is crossing my mind wether to go up to a 256 and give me extra space if needed.

Planned install on the SSD will be
Windows 7 or 8 64 bit
Photoshop CS6
Sims 4 when released (not for me for the Mrs)
Grand theft auto 5 (if it ever makes it to PC)
Some smaller ancillary applications e.g. avast etc
 
stupar said:
It is crossing my mind wether to go up to a 256 and give me extra space if needed.

Planned install on the SSD will be
Windows 7 or 8 64 bit
Photoshop CS6
Sims 4 when released (not for me for the Mrs)
Grand theft auto 5 (if it ever makes it to PC)
Some smaller ancillary applications e.g. avast etc
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I went to 250 simply because of how much windows grows over time.

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Also I bought a 250 gig 840 from Amazon for 110 yesterday. ;)

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stupar said:
It is crossing my mind wether to go up to a 256 and give me extra space if needed.

Planned install on the SSD will be
Windows 7 or 8 64 bit
Photoshop CS6
Sims 4 when released (not for me for the Mrs)
Grand theft auto 5 (if it ever makes it to PC)
Some smaller ancillary applications e.g. avast etc
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ive got a 128 with windows 7 pro, lightroom, cs4, diablo3, starcraft2, bioshock, tonne of apps. space wise its not a problem (all of my files are saved elsewhere)

a 256 will be a bit faster though :)
 
neil_g said:
ive got a 128 with windows 7 pro, lightroom, cs4, diablo3, starcraft2, bioshock, tonne of apps. space wise its not a problem (all of my files are saved elsewhere)

a 256 will be a bit faster though :)
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Interesting. The way I looked at it was that the price I paid (£110) was such a small amount more that it would be daft not to get the bigger one.
 
Ah, that makes sense. :)
 
Will a small SSD say 60gb make an ideal scratch disc for photoshop?
 
You'll probably find a small ssd isn't that much faster than a HDD. Not tried it though...
 
arad85 said:
You'll probably find a small ssd isn't that much faster than a HDD. Not tried it though...
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my old OCZ 60 while not the fastest (was only sata2) was still faster than a mechanical. obviously it wasnt as fast as the 128gb 830s or wont be as fast again as the larger drives.

as dean said, the cost of larger drives these days youd be daft not to get one.
 
The problem with the 60G drives (actually nearly all the ones ending in a 0 for size) is that they use compression to get their speed. Often the write speeds are quoted as 1xxMB/sec - this will be for compressible data and you won't get anywhere near this for incompressible data - especially if it isn't written to the disk in the most efficient manner for the disk. I think LR/PS will use compressed images when writing their cache. They will certainly be quicker on read though. As a boot drive, a 120GB is a no brainer. As a scratch disk, it would be interesting to do a comparison (especially with a 60G drive which will be slower than a 120G one) but I wouldn't say it would definitely be quicker - for a scratch disk that is.
 
Would be surprised if scratch is compressed?

Just moved my LR cat + previews onto SSD and images to NAS instead of having the lot on a local HDD. Seems a decent compromise....haven't tried to see if the skydrive magic sauce is going to let my Surface use the same cat + nas setup, will probably break horribly!
 
One for experimentation then ;)
 
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