LOL just bought a Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73 GHz socket 775

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Alex the Samsung is a good buy

+1

I've got 2 of the previous gen 830s in my desktop (256) and an 840 in my laptop.

If you want to save a few £££ other than for benchmarking you wont see any real-world difference between the 840 pro and non pro, that said the 830 is a better drive than the 840 non pro.

[justalex81]

yeah i've already got 2 x 256gb samsung 830's in my machine now 

it's just the 840's are a bit faster 

I'm thinking 2 x 128gb 840 pro's in raid for boot and the 830's as a games drive and the other as a music drive.

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yeah i've already got 2 x 256gb samsung 830's in my machine now 

it's just the 840's are a bit faster 

I'm thinking 2 x 128gb 840 pro's in raid for boot and the 830's as a games drive and the other as a music drive.

over kill IMO

unless you're doing some heavy heavy audio processing / creation an SSD for music is a waste and RAID 0 will give you no noticeable performance increase.

Personally I'd got for 3 * 128gb 840 pro in RAID 5 as at least that way you've got redundancy.

Personally I have one for boot / applications, one for games and then a RAID 0 array for other games / scratch.  But I also have a RAID1 array for my backups (which includes my music collection).

[justalex81]

My music collection is backed up on mechanical hdd anyway. My music is all lossless.

No need for a backup on boot drive as that will only have OS and apps on it and will be imaged.

All of this is overkill. I'm not a benchmark fanboi. I do it because i like the best. the only thing i'll be using mechanical for is movies and tv shows which i only store at 720p or above. When the SSD gets large enough and cheap enough i'll get rid of the mech HDD too. 

The old drives filter down into laptops (i have 4 inc the 2 the missus has) or get sold.

i like everything fast!!!

[justalex81]

i have new toys