Single SSD with Raid 0 Spinning drives

[Zayla74]

Hello all. I a question concernig a raid (stripe) partition.

I have 3 Drives in my system.

A SSD 30GB Vertex (That Windows 7 is on).
A 640 WD Blue and a 1TB WD Black


What Im wanting to do is create a RAID array out of those 2 spinning disks just for DATA storage.
Likely 3 partitons, which would be a total of little over 1100GB.

After i install Win7 on the SSD ..

I was thinking maybe like 35GB partirtion for the docs/temp/page file (I moved all TEMP, and Pagefile off the SSD)

400GB partition for games
and remaining 700 and something for videos/music

If I create this all based on the 640GB drive .. that should leave 300ish GB unallacted on the 1TB drive.
Will I be able to use that unallocated space for Acronis Secure Zone back up area, even though it will not be a RAID, or will I just loose all that space all together.



I was going to use the Intel matrix Storage also if that matters

 

[Pyrolistical]

wrong wrong wrong.

First of all you shouldn't raid together mismatched drives.
Second of all raid 0 of mech drives is worthless for you
Third of all you want to KEEP the page file on the SSD or else your computer will lag when you switch programs or wake from sleep. Mech drives suck for page files and page files don't kill SSD life.

That is all.