Badass cpu!!!
Dream PC Setup
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I have a AMD build as well. Want to switch to Intel as well. Intel has the best cpus and is a solid choice
If your AMD processor is a few years old, then I wouldn’t worry about CPUs. Invest in a nice video card if you’re into gaming.
I wanna build a AMD Ryzen system, with tons of ram and all my 10TB hard drives. With 2 maybe 3 GPUs, this way I can game/mine/video edit with it.
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Make sure your primary drive for OS is an SSD one.
Mining takes a lot of power. Be prepared to see your monthly electrical bill rise.
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I use to run programs for stanford with my computer at 100% load, I know the power demand. But honestly I don’t even want to mine I just wanna build a beast computer that can handle anything I throw at it
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Then add liquid cooling too while you’re at it 
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I been liquid cooled since my first computer build and I went after the world record for over clocking as mentioned above
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the former is limited by your imagination, the latter is limited by technology and affordability. As such you can easily be dissatisfied.
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stop ruining my fun 
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LOL:sweat_smile:
I’ve been toying with upping my RAID’ed drives as I could do with more space. Was looking at going either 4 or 6 4TB drives in RAID 10. However I’m thinking I may just go down the cloud backup route and buy Google drive space. That way I don’t need to worry about backups or redundancy. It is scalable and accessible anywhere without me relying on home internet being good.
It’s gonna be a shift in working practices for me! 
@Arwen With cloud storage One plus is you don’t have to worry about hard drive failures, I have experienced a handful of those over the years. Makes me worry about my 10TB hard drive, but fingers crossed it doesn’t ever die on me
Exactly. That’s why I implement RAID that can survive at least one disk failure on my storage. Lost too much stuff over the years due to HDD failures 
Cloud is slow.
You have different causes of loss of data, one is physical via hardware failure other is logical via error such as application or human error.
Raid helps in certain types of physical failure. SSD are more reliable
If you’re concerned then use rsync to another system at home so anything large you can copy back. To allow for house scale loss then copy to cloud, or put another server in another house.
Servers can be just a Raspberry pi with a big hard drive.
After the initial bulk upload then speed doesn’t really worry me. Current photos/videos that I will be working on will be local. Cloud will be used for more archive/occasional off site access. I thought about a home NAS/Server set up as well. But that’s what I do at work and I can’t really be bothered to set it up and maintain it for myself 
@Arwen my 10TB hard drive is designed for a NAS system. I too wouldn’t mind having one but having to maintain it is a bit much for home use. Now whenever me and my family move and we have the space I will set one up for everyone to use as then it’s more of a convenience than a necessity
My work laptop uses rsync to the NAS in my home, the NAS in a family member’s home in another country. my phone and my tablet which has ssh running. I compiled truecrypt for ARM so have a portable encrypted filesystem. In total backup to 9 locations. Had a PC since 1995 never lost anything. My backup script is 59 lines long, which reminds me I got a new tablet need to update my script to backup to it.
Last night I updated crontab to download BBC News automatically and 2 nights earlier got Linux on my Android tablet to run PERL and was battling making ffmpeg, but it also can now run my scripts.
:~ $ crontab -l
0 15-20 * * * getnews 1>/tmp/getnews.txt 2>&1
nigel@raspberrypi:~ $ cat getnews
#!/bin/sh
if [ $(pgrep -c getnews) -gt "1" ]
then
echo getnews already running
exit
fi
gi --refresh --type=tv >/dev/null 2>&1
gi --tvmode=worse --get $(gi "Newsnight" | grep `date | awk '{print $2}'` | cut -d: -f1)
gi --tvmode=worse --get $(gi "News at Ten" | grep `date | awk '{print $2}'` | cut -d: -f1)
Cloud is good for tertiary backups.
Oops. Geek.
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Do you like my “datacenter” ?
Two big boxes on left is a big APC UPS it runs the stuff here for about 16 hours, long enough for your typical winter storm power outage we get., then local cable modem, the laptop is a half-broken one I use as a server to run a Windows VM, then I have an old phone I use tethered to my smartwatch so I can go al fresco just with no phone, and a raspberry Pi and a powered USB hub with a 1TB harddrive which is basically my NAS. I do media recoding on the “server” laptop has its got the CPU power about 40x faster the Raspberry Pi. Wifi router is up high and UPS powered. At the back is a VOIP router, I run virtual phone numbers so folks can phone me for free and the phone in the house rings.
Low down in garage to keep it cooler and held off floor in event of flood from the utilities nearby.
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I could do something like that, but as I said above. It’s what I do for my job. I like to simply switch off when I get home