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to start this build blog Luke and I wanted to come up with the perfect

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symbol for how well we work together we brainstormed and debated and eventually

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we decided peanut butter and

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jelly

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he

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and I think we all knew how that was

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going to end so uh we were on our way

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back inside feeling dirty and a little ashamed when we realized the answer was

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was staring Us in the face all along we go together like an SSD and a hard drive

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the ultimate Tag

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Team all right cheesy opening skit thing

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did you say cheese wow no thank

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you aside that all aside the point of

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today's build blog although this won't be news to anyone who's been watching

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our channel for the last couple of years is some things like an SSD and a hard

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drive are just better together so to

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educate people about this idea of ssds

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and hard drives being a match made in heaven like PB&J WD launched their dream

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machine for good promotion on a couple of popular online communities getting

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members of ABS form and AV Forum to submit their ideas for a dream machine

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and then giving us the opportunity to draw a configuration from the dozens of

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submissions build it and donate it to a local school to give the students there

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the tools that they need to develop their skills as videographers

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photographers digital artists animators you name it so we drew Askin 7's

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configuration and today Luke and I are going to build up that config that he or

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she submitted with a couple of small tweaks we upgraded the motherboard to an

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x99 Deluxe due to availability of the

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one that he selected ask and 7's configuration was definitely one of the

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better balanced ones that struck a solid Middle Ground between some of the other

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configs that were either total Dream Machines that only made sense in dreams

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or super mundane rigs that wouldn't feel like we were really building an ultimate

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workstation for the students to use we did end up making a couple of tweaks to

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the config so the motherboard had to be changed I already mentioned that the 4

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tab WD green storage Drive was upgraded to two brand spanking new 6 tbte models

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courtesy of WD for a total of 12 terab of storage and the monitor was changed

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to a personal favorite of mine the ASUS pb278q because the one the post called

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for was a little bit over the top for our config I really liked the choice of

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the defin R5 for the case for a lot of Gamers something flashier might have

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made more sense but even though this is definitely a capable machine for games I

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mean it's got a GTX 980 in it the intended use is in a classroom so it

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should be extremely quiet and it shouldn't look super flashy with side

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panel Windows and LED lights all over the place I like the choice of the Intel

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Core i7 5820k if this was a gaming rig I might

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question the wisdom of spending the extra money on six processing cores and

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ddr4 versus a more practical quad core DDR3 machine but since it's much more

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likely to be used for Content creation than 3D games the extra couple of

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processing cores will save a lot of time in the long run for whoever is using it

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16 gigs of RAM might not seem like like much right now but with the way ddr4 is

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going to drop in price over the next year or two it made sense to go light on

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the RAM and then upgrade it later on down the road when the cost per capacity

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is much lower and when you're sure that the extra RAM is actually going to be

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used speaking of cost per capacity our configuration includes a 512 gig 850 Pro

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SSD and those two six terab WD green

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drives that I mentioned before for mass storage the 850 Pro is super fast and

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that's where we'll install the Windows 8.1 operating system but it's also a

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$500 drive for a mere half a terabyte of

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storage not really an appropriate price per gig for storing large video files or

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anything else that takes up a lot of space and doesn't directly benefit from

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the faster random reads and wrs of an SSD so that's where our hard drives come

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in each of these 6 terab drives costs about half as much as that single 512

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gig SSD for 12 times as much storage

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each so about 12th the cost per gig

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overall actually a little bit less than that so we'll store large programs here

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and they can also be divvied up amongst all the different students who work on

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the machine so that they all have enough space to store their projects without

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worrying about running out of room but there are actually some little tricks to

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help you get the most out of an SSD and hard drive configuration so for those of

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you at home changing your default installation directories for programs

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like steam origin and Uplay to the hard

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drive rather than to the SSD will save you the trouble of changing it every

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single time you can also change things like your my documents and my videos

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folders to remap them to the hard drive and then Windows every time you go and

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look for those folders will automatically redirect you to your mass

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storage you can utilize programs like space sniffer a personal favorite to

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keep your SSD space freed up it gives you a nice little visual representation

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of everything that's on your SSD so you can figure out what you need and what

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you don't and another little tip is when

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you're defragging when you're running regular system maintenance you do want

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to defrag your hard drive in order to get the sequential files as close

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together to each other as you possibly can versus having the little bits of

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them scattered all over the place but never defrag an SSD it's actually bad

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for it a tip that's not specific to SSD and hard drive dual Drive users is

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encrypting your drives Windows security is pretty easy to break but to protect

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your files it's definitely worthwhile to encrypt things and Guys these are just a

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few of the ways that you can keep your system optimized if you have some

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specific questions the best thing to do would be to direct you to the Linus Tech

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tips Forum thread Linked In the video description where you can actually ask

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any specific questions you have about how to make this process as seamless and

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painless as possible WD is planning to have some of their Tech technical folks

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in there answering questions for the next couple of weeks so whether you're

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still working on your next system or you've already got a dual Drive set up

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you can drop your questions in there and they'll do their best to answer you so

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check that out again it's linked in the video description so that's pretty much

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it for this build blog thanks to Ask and S and the rest of the folks who

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submitted PC configs for us to potentially build thanks to you guys for

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watching and thanks to WD for letting us be involved in this fun little project

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guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a

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comment letting us know if you have any sort of actually I mean hey might be a

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great place to also have some discussion about your dual Drive setups also check

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the other Link in the video description if you want to support us you can buy a cool t-shirt like this one you can give

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