Conundrum (right section?)

[notarat]

I have the following drives:

(3) 1TB Western Digital SATA 3 Caviar Black Drives
(2) 1TB Western Digital SATA 6 Caviar Black Drives
(2)2TB Western Digital SATA 3 Caviar Green Drives

I’m trying to decide the optimum layout of them in my new system (If I do give into the upgrade itch and get an Asus P8P67 Deluxe + 2600K)

I see the following configurations as possibilities:

1. Slice out the fast part of ALL of the 1TB Drives using my Intel Matrix RAID setup connected to SATA 3 and use the rest of the space for Mirrored RAID + Use the 2TB Drives as data dumps

2. Slice out the fast part of the two 1TB SATA 6 drives on the SATA 6 controller for RAID 0 & use the rest as mirrored RAID & Slice out the fast part of the three 1TB SATA 3 drives as RAID 0 & use the rest of those drives as Mirrored RAID + Use the 2TB Drives as data dumps

3. Each drive connected normally (no matrix raid) and create a dynamic (software) RAID setup of some sort within Windows 7 (not really an attractive option)

4. JBOD with 1 partition FTMFW (j/k)

I'm totally option to suggestions at this point as this is just a "what-if" scenario. If you have a different config, please state why you would choose a particular configuration,

 

[[LYL]Homer]

SSD for OS. Rest of the drives just as non-raid storage.

/zing!

 

[Jesse B]

You could RAID10 4 of the Caviar Blacks (at SATA2 speeds), then have the Greens for random storage.. or something. There's a million things you could do here

 

[Old Hippie]

SSD for OS. Rest of the drives just as non-raid storage.

/zing!

+1

OP, you're making a simple process way too complicated.

Remember the KISS principle.