to start this build blog Luke and I wanted to come up with the perfect
symbol for how well we work together we brainstormed and debated and eventually
we decided peanut butter and
jelly
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and I think we all knew how that was
going to end so uh we were on our way
back inside feeling dirty and a little ashamed when we realized the answer was
was staring Us in the face all along we go together like an SSD and a hard drive
the ultimate Tag
Team all right cheesy opening skit thing
did you say cheese wow no thank
you aside that all aside the point of
today's build blog although this won't be news to anyone who's been watching
our channel for the last couple of years is some things like an SSD and a hard
drive are just better together so to
educate people about this idea of ssds
and hard drives being a match made in heaven like PB&J WD launched their dream
machine for good promotion on a couple of popular online communities getting
members of ABS form and AV Forum to submit their ideas for a dream machine
and then giving us the opportunity to draw a configuration from the dozens of
submissions build it and donate it to a local school to give the students there
the tools that they need to develop their skills as videographers
photographers digital artists animators you name it so we drew Askin 7's
configuration and today Luke and I are going to build up that config that he or
she submitted with a couple of small tweaks we upgraded the motherboard to an
x99 Deluxe due to availability of the
one that he selected ask and 7's configuration was definitely one of the
better balanced ones that struck a solid Middle Ground between some of the other
configs that were either total Dream Machines that only made sense in dreams
or super mundane rigs that wouldn't feel like we were really building an ultimate
workstation for the students to use we did end up making a couple of tweaks to
the config so the motherboard had to be changed I already mentioned that the 4
tab WD green storage Drive was upgraded to two brand spanking new 6 tbte models
courtesy of WD for a total of 12 terab of storage and the monitor was changed
to a personal favorite of mine the ASUS pb278q because the one the post called
for was a little bit over the top for our config I really liked the choice of
the defin R5 for the case for a lot of Gamers something flashier might have
made more sense but even though this is definitely a capable machine for games I
mean it's got a GTX 980 in it the intended use is in a classroom so it
should be extremely quiet and it shouldn't look super flashy with side
panel Windows and LED lights all over the place I like the choice of the Intel
Core i7 5820k if this was a gaming rig I might
question the wisdom of spending the extra money on six processing cores and
ddr4 versus a more practical quad core DDR3 machine but since it's much more
likely to be used for Content creation than 3D games the extra couple of
processing cores will save a lot of time in the long run for whoever is using it
16 gigs of RAM might not seem like like much right now but with the way ddr4 is
going to drop in price over the next year or two it made sense to go light on
the RAM and then upgrade it later on down the road when the cost per capacity
is much lower and when you're sure that the extra RAM is actually going to be
used speaking of cost per capacity our configuration includes a 512 gig 850 Pro
SSD and those two six terab WD green
drives that I mentioned before for mass storage the 850 Pro is super fast and
that's where we'll install the Windows 8.1 operating system but it's also a
$500 drive for a mere half a terabyte of
storage not really an appropriate price per gig for storing large video files or
anything else that takes up a lot of space and doesn't directly benefit from
the faster random reads and wrs of an SSD so that's where our hard drives come
in each of these 6 terab drives costs about half as much as that single 512
gig SSD for 12 times as much storage
each so about 12th the cost per gig
overall actually a little bit less than that so we'll store large programs here
and they can also be divvied up amongst all the different students who work on
the machine so that they all have enough space to store their projects without
worrying about running out of room but there are actually some little tricks to
help you get the most out of an SSD and hard drive configuration so for those of
you at home changing your default installation directories for programs
like steam origin and Uplay to the hard
drive rather than to the SSD will save you the trouble of changing it every
single time you can also change things like your my documents and my videos
folders to remap them to the hard drive and then Windows every time you go and
look for those folders will automatically redirect you to your mass
storage you can utilize programs like space sniffer a personal favorite to
keep your SSD space freed up it gives you a nice little visual representation
of everything that's on your SSD so you can figure out what you need and what
you don't and another little tip is when
you're defragging when you're running regular system maintenance you do want
to defrag your hard drive in order to get the sequential files as close
together to each other as you possibly can versus having the little bits of
them scattered all over the place but never defrag an SSD it's actually bad
for it a tip that's not specific to SSD and hard drive dual Drive users is
encrypting your drives Windows security is pretty easy to break but to protect
your files it's definitely worthwhile to encrypt things and Guys these are just a
few of the ways that you can keep your system optimized if you have some
specific questions the best thing to do would be to direct you to the Linus Tech
tips Forum thread Linked In the video description where you can actually ask
any specific questions you have about how to make this process as seamless and
painless as possible WD is planning to have some of their Tech technical folks
in there answering questions for the next couple of weeks so whether you're
still working on your next system or you've already got a dual Drive set up
you can drop your questions in there and they'll do their best to answer you so
check that out again it's linked in the video description so that's pretty much
it for this build blog thanks to Ask and S and the rest of the folks who
submitted PC configs for us to potentially build thanks to you guys for
watching and thanks to WD for letting us be involved in this fun little project
guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a
comment letting us know if you have any sort of actually I mean hey might be a
great place to also have some discussion about your dual Drive setups also check
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