Recent content by jibberjive

This was also a concern of mine. Thanks for the input everyone, looks like it's a no-go for me. Backup only it is. Thanks again.

I'm not trying to have it be backup; as I mentioned in my second post, I have a network attached storage that is for backup. What advantage would this have or simply doing RAID 1 and having that mirroring done automatically?

The RAID 1 of the main drive would be a layer of redundancy in the system. I also have a NAS external that would be 'backup' for the drive(s). My main concerns is if it will work, and if it will slow it down. Regarding the optical drive being orders of magnitude slower than the SSD, does the...

So I've got a fancy new 256GB SSD that I will use for the OS drive, and I just so happen to have an older 256GB optical drive that I harvested from a WD My Book external. Using Intel Rapid Storage, and my MOBO has a controller that supports RAID 1. I've heard that the drives have to be the...

Yeah, definitely looking for the best way to do it, I don't care how difficult. Sounds like method #1 it is. Thanks!

I'm doing a fresh install for the 3rd or 4th time on this machine (I got a new 256gb SSD that I'm using as the OS drive), and I've heard conflicting things about the best method to install Windows with my configuration of 2 SATA drives in RAID 1 and an SSD for the operating system. 1. The...