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Good morning 
I have jumped on the Windows 7 bandwagon and got my copy on order, after ordering this I decided I would like to get a new drive or 2 to have a nice new clean install, my current drives are quite poor and old. After speaking to a friend who works for an IT reseller, he told me he would send me a couple of WD 500GB Caviar Black drives, this was a little unexpected, but good times
Anyway, with this in mind I have come to the conclusion that perhaps it would be best to raid 1 both drives and install my new OS and games. However, my question is this, would I be best off getting a couple of smaller drives, say WD Caviar Blue, putting them in raid 1 and just having the OS on there, while my 2 WD Blacks handle all my games and data in raid 1. Would that be much better than having all my data just on one raid?
Sorry for making this a little long winded, and in case you could not tell, I have very little knowledge about raid set-ups, any bits of advice would be greatly appreciated. Oh and all I do with the PC really is play games, primarily World of Warcraft.
I have jumped on the Windows 7 bandwagon and got my copy on order, after ordering this I decided I would like to get a new drive or 2 to have a nice new clean install, my current drives are quite poor and old. After speaking to a friend who works for an IT reseller, he told me he would send me a couple of WD 500GB Caviar Black drives, this was a little unexpected, but good times
Anyway, with this in mind I have come to the conclusion that perhaps it would be best to raid 1 both drives and install my new OS and games. However, my question is this, would I be best off getting a couple of smaller drives, say WD Caviar Blue, putting them in raid 1 and just having the OS on there, while my 2 WD Blacks handle all my games and data in raid 1. Would that be much better than having all my data just on one raid?
Sorry for making this a little long winded, and in case you could not tell, I have very little knowledge about raid set-ups, any bits of advice would be greatly appreciated. Oh and all I do with the PC really is play games, primarily World of Warcraft.
