Setting up new SSD with a 1TB hdd

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I've got all my build parts, and will start putting it together tomorrow.

I have a SSD and caviar black 1tb hdd.

I'd like to know how you would setup your systems if you had these two drives.

So I was thinking OS and Apps on SSD and 50% of 1TB for games and the remaining on documents and work files.
 
I run OS and all small apps on my SSD. I tend to install all games to by other drive (although mine is a mirror RAID) and find the lack on Windows overhead on the drive makes normal HDDs quite bearable for loading even large games and files.

I don't have to deal with other files on my PC as everything else I built a file server for (i'd recommend microservers to everyone, far cheaper than RAID NAS boxes and more customisable.)

If I we're you get another 1TB drive and run mirrored RAID. That way its nice and fast to access your data but far more importantly you data is backed up against hardware failure (for the most part). I hate to lecture people but its what I do for a living and people never consider backup until they've had a serious data loss, which from personal experience sucks balls.
 
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Apparently the WD caviar black FAEX drive is one of the fastest 7200rpm disk drives so speed shouldnt be to much an issue and even better if windows overhead is low when loading files.

I was actually planning on a qnap 412 to create a raid5 array. Not keen on have a proper PC like system running with having to run windows etc. Prefer the access of network in the browser type thing. What you think?
 
Not quite sure what you mean in the last paragraph but those RAID boxes are good if you have no server OS experience as they're pretty simple. The reason I like to use the microservers is because you can normally get one for £90ish+vat from ****** after the HP £100 cashback (i'd never buy any other HP servers.) Then add in your Hard Drives to suit and some extra RAM.

Saying that those RAID boxes were more like £600 last time I looked. It really depends how you want to use it, I prefer the server because I can just remote in and start a download so it run overnight. If you're only looking for simple storage then those NAS RAID boxes seem better value for money than they were.
 
I've seen the qnap raid box for £260ish, i've also seen the HP server and for the reasons I stated already, dont want to deal with a server OS.
 
Dont do the silly thing i did and install the OS with both drives connected, even though you install it on the SSD some files will go to the HDD, install the OS with only the SSD connected then after installation, connect the HDD :)
 
jordyGFC said:
Dont do the silly thing i did and install the OS with both drives connected, even though you install it on the SSD some files will go to the HDD, install the OS with only the SSD connected then after installation, connect the HDD :)
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Good tip, thanks for that.
 
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