It’s actually not that big. It’s a standard mid tower case.
Edit: I only use full size ATX motherboards.
I generally avoid all things Corsair. It just feels like the Best Buy brand to me. And nothing about Best Buy feels above average to me. No Corsair in my build.
I’ve only had one. And it’s ATX. I can’t believe how big “mid” towers are, they are massive.
Full tower cases are massive! 
Edit: You can get some smaller compact mid-tower cases.
I don’t know about that. I generally like most of their products. They are pretty good quality.
Edit: I normally don’t buy all things corsair. The case i like so i decided to get it. I’ve used lots of different cases.
It’s just not really my style.
The case? 
No. Corsair being available at all best buys. It just taints the brand to me personally, that’s all.
I don’t buy from best buy very often so I guess i just don’t see that. I buy all my computer parts from only one supplier but i have bought things from best buy on occasion.
I just looked a lot of places in the last couple weeks building this thing.
Hard to tell what the most effective use for you is, but this is how I do it:
- ext4 filesystem (fast, reliable, no frills, just works)
- one partition per physical drive (with the exception of the EFI partition, of course, no swap partition)
- root and efi are on the fastest drive I have (preferably nvme), home directory is on the root partition (i.e. on the same drive), swapfile on the same drive, too
- every other internal drive gets a mountpoint inside the home directory - this is where I keep all my documents, pictures, videos, downloads, programming projects, music, etc… - symbolic links ensure everything is organised nicely (for example, the Music directory is in my home directory, but the Bach directory under Music is actually a symlink to the directory on another physical drive)
- external drives are mounted in /mnt
This is the scheme I’ve came up with after many installs over many years – it is what I currently consider the simplest and most effective way to organise a multi-drive system.
3 Likes
And they’re most certainly hotter (when full throttle) 
I will look into this. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of, never mind used a symlink.
can you recommend RX 6750XT? I ordered a new gaming computer with this graphics card at the weekend.
I had the same feeling about this brand being average, but last time I changed my PSU, I ordered a Corsair (RM series), because I found good reviews (and it was Tier A in the cultists list), the quality/price ratio was very good.
I only have experience with a 6600. I cannot recommend something I’ve never used before.
1 Like
Should be a decent card.
@dalto do symlinks work on btrfs also? I may just do what kresimir suggested. Normal install and then just do a symlink into the second drive. . . I admittedly haven’t read up on it yet in either case. This going to work thing had gotten in my way.
I’m still leaning towards a one drive install anyways since it will also force me into slowly building music and making sure things don’t get lost or scrambled as I go and in my head originally music is the only thing I will be music or even music/tv/movie stuff onto that one drive alone.
I think what @dalto suggested using subvolumes would be better than use a symlink if using btrfs.
Yes. However, that isn’t a great solution when using btrfs. It is much more flexible to use subvolumes instead.
I guess for me I just understand the concept of symlinks easier. I’ll do some reading.