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1. RAID has very little to do with safety of data. RAID is not backup. 2. Tom says even RAID-0 is not an extremely mindblowing idea for performance enthusiasts - but no harm if you have backups.

Point out the "context" which makes it clear. Actually your further context implies that things don't work AND there are no newer versions in custom ROMs, but sure, go ahead and point out from "context". Ok, so you know none of these but give an "overview" , considering it doubtful that it...

Either this is wrong, or you are using a strange definition of "updates ", making it very very misleading. "They " do updates for phones that do not get them. Phones for which the official updates stopped at froyo are happily running custom ROMs based on ICS and sometimes beyond. If this is not...

While other advice here is good, there is no such thing as a "reliable" hard disk. All hard disks fail, sooner or later. If your rarely used data is really important, store it on at least 2 DIFFERENT kind of hard disks for the long term, and keep checking.

Right, so people already having Ivy Bridge need not upgrade. But if you are getting a new system, better get Haswell. Think 3 years later if you need to upgrade CPU (or it gets fried) - you will have better choice in selecting from Haswell processors. Intel has not yet promised that Broadwell...

For 8-10 TB, it will be around 30k for non-redundant hard drive space (around 3*3TB). If one even wants 4/3 RAID-5 protection, it gets around 40k. Leaving 10k for the NAS itself, which doesn't give a great NAS, especially if a lot of people have to use it and to support 6-8 HDDs. You could do...

From reading your intended use of the machine, I strongly believe SSD will help you tremendously. As for your development in Linux requirements, for same budget I recommended this last week...

A 125 watter does not belong in the living room. It just doesn't. All your efforts are about putting lipstick on a pig* For all the hardwork, you could get an old C2D from trade section of TE, whole system in the price of a decent CPU cooler for X4. Underclock if possible, but not necessary...

Does buying Ivy Bridge i3 make sense since Haswell i3 is coming in Sep ? FTFY

There is no such thing as native SSD support. I am using an SSD with a motherboard 4 years older than Rampage II Extreme. When my motherboard was manufactured, the word SSD hadn't been invented. It has SATA 2 ports, like yours, and SSD gives a huge benefit still. Definitely worth a go...

Ok, take someone's advice about RAM too. As I said earlier, I am not sure of optimal RAM frequency with Haswell as no one seems to have reviewed it from that perspective. The heat spreaders of the Corsair Vengeance RAM might interfere with CPU cooler too.

Nothing against OP, anyone could be in the situation. But may I take this opportunity to request a sticky thread on the topic, with links to such threads, to remind people to backup? Maybe we can start a cooperative backup society on the lines of volunteergrid, but with guidelines specific to...

You bet Linux will be fine. I boot the same operating system(same hard drive) on 2 completely different systems with different hard drives. No issues. But I avoid (and ask you to avoid) AMD's non-open-source graphics drivers if possible. Try the default open source drivers and there should be no...

Yup, I chose the processor because it has most of the features at a low price. Even without AES-NI, linux (at least dmcrypt) has been parallellized so performs well. Of course AES-NI is also used and helps. 1. No, it is not easy to switch in Linux. Switch while rebooting - BIOS / UEFI user...

Not a problem. HD5xxx works reasonably well In Linux, just not as great as HD2xxx and HD3xxx. If you have any problem, you could disable the AMD graphics card as long as you are on Linux and enjoy the perfect Intel graphics support. Lower performance of Intel graphics should not matter for your...

For all requirements other than graphics intensive games, Intel Haswell graphics is more than enough (desktop compositing, accelerated HD movie watching, multiple monitors, non graphics intensive games). But if you don't get a graphics card - graphics intensive video games are completely out...

1. Would you play games in Linux? 2. You've decided on an SSD but not told about its purpose. Accelerating game loading? Development tools / compilation? SSD needs to be accessible from windows and linux ? If usage is very varied, SSD size needs to be increased. 3. I see lots of reboots in...

While I think 90% of performance gains for your usage can be gained by PSU + graphics card upgrade, sell off current PSU and graphics card. Put extra money from the 41k in an FD for next generation of CPU / chipsets. But specifically, H87 can also overclock, in a way ...

Check out Amazon Glacier too - $0.011 / GB / month*. Around rupees 7 per month for 100 GB storage. Upto 1 GB per month download free. Since the topic being discussed is archival, upload and download won't be very frequent so transfer costs would be negligible. Check fastglacier.com for a windows...

1st September? Haswell motherboards / processors are available all over the internet. Since online SMC International is also selling them, and I guess they are in Nehru Place, Haswell has stormed Nehru Place as well. And knowing Intel, prices won't decrease much for some months. Dollar might...