Possible Power Issues for a Home Build

[obiwannknowlton]

Back in December 2011, I built a system based off one of Marest's models. I ended up with the following:


MoBo: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3P
CPU: Intel i7 2600k – $314.99
RAM: G.Skill Sniper 1600Mhz 2x4Gb
GPU: ASUS DCII GTX 580
HDD: Samsung Spinpoint 1TB
SSD: Crucial M4 120Gb
PSU: Seasonic X Series 650W
Heatsink: Corsair A70
Case: Corsair 500R Black
Sound: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium HD PCI Express x1 Interface Sound Card
Optical: SAMSUNG Black 12X BD-ROM 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM SATA Internal Blu-ray Combo Model SH-B123L LightScribe Support
OS: Windows 7

A short time ago, I started getting lock ups, and the BSoD. I narrowed it down to my SSD being bad and my secondary hardrive being suspect, and I was thinking of upgrading as I replace them. Would I have any power issues if I put SSD: Samsung 830 128GB (x2) RAID0 and HDD: WD Caviar Black 1TB in there?

[glo]

You don't want to RAID SSDs. You lose TRIM support and in turn significantly lessen the lifespan of the drives. Not to mention that no common usage will ever utilize that type of speed -unless- you get a second pair of RAID SSDs to transfer files between the four drives.

Anyway, SSDs and HDDs consume very little power. You'll have no issues.

HOWEVER, the 830 and F1 (yours was made by Samsung, not Seagate by the looks of your purchase time) are both very reliable drives. I would read more into the BSOD errors that you're getting before you replace them. See if there's a firmware update for the 830. I'd also burn a memtest disk and test your RAM.