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[TheGhost]

The data will technically be there, but when you pull it from the array, I don't know if it will be in an independently readable format.

EDIT: Yeah, as Goat said, I guess that makes sense. RAID 1 seems kind of silly. Why not just set up a backup drive and then backup what you want?

[Cortexian]

830 GB's / 931 GB's is stuff I want backups of, though I may just forgo the backup solution for awhile... I've never had a drive fail on me before. *knocks on wood*

[justin108]

well you have been lucky, I for one have tried the freezer trick as well as chanting voodoo over a dead drive. Then again my first hard disk was like 650MB....and yeah they have come quite a ways since then. The last one I had fail was in 2006 i think, but the drive was old as shit. There can not be enough said about backing up data. If you don't think it is important today, ask all the guys who have lost their source code. In the *real* world hard drives do fail, and backups are the difference in an educated decision, or losing your fucking data, as with the recent tmobile snaffu, I bet most of those folks were banking on no crash too.

1 Terabyte drive = 89.99
Not Losing 8 years of Porn = Priceless

[paladin]

well you have been lucky, I for one have tried the freezer trick as well as chanting voodoo over a dead drive.

HDD in the freezer worked for me. When my 500gb external drive went to shit, I was able to get all the data off of it by freezing. It took a few times, but I eventually got it all off.

[Ganon]

For x-mas im getting 2 of these (selling current): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824236049

Will also be upgrading my GFX card and was wondering what one would be best suited for running both those monitors (ASUS supremacy, going to take a lot of persuading to change my mind on what monitor to get). My price range is $300. I was looking at these so far:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130475
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814121308
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161299

[Cortexian]

ATI has far superior multi-monitor support, so I'd get one of the ATI cards.

People, stop buying 1920x1080 monitors, 1920x1200 is superior!

[Rook]

I'd go for the HIS card

[InnerGoat]

The gtx275 is a bit faster but not a whole 100 dollars faster (compared to the HIS 4890 with rebate)

Get the HIS, and the right cables since it doesn't have any adapters

[Ganon]

Also looking into getting a bluray drive, just one that plays bluray disks. I have no use for one that serves as a DVD/CD burner, considering I already have a drive that serves that purpose... Besides installation, I literally have 0 clue about drives. I saw this one had good pretty good ratings, but maybe some of you have more insight on what to look for ;]

[Huero]

A PREDICAMENT:
As of late, I've become increasingly obsessed with the possibility of modding Fallout 3. Unfortunately, I don't have a good enough PC to do such a thing at the moment; I need a good, economic solution that will allow me to play the game on high settings (which, as I've heard, does not exactly require the best video card in existence.) Is anyone willing to help me with this predicament?

e: well this was a dumb question
good job reading the first post sam