does this make sense at all?

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Not considering price would it make sense to get an intel 80gb drive for OS and some programs, a vraptor for programs that don't fit on the intel and for cache/page files that'll get written/rewritten/deleted a lot, and a 2 gb caviar green drive for storage? It's not something I'd probably ever do but I was randomly thinking about it and thought it'd be an interesting topic.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
It's not something I'd probably ever do but I was randomly thinking about it and thought it'd be an interesting topic.

It's been talked to death. 😛

BTW, With the faster drives, the "Green" doesn't make any sense.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Can I get a link to it? I'm probably doing it wrong, but I'm not having much luck searching.

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
Can I get a link to it?

Here you go

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
Can I get a link to it?

Here you go

Really now? I was looking to read it not bump it. Be a bit less of a douche next time? K thx

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
It's not something I'd probably ever do but I was randomly thinking about it and thought it'd be an interesting topic.

It's been talked to death. 😛

BTW, With the faster drives, the "Green" doesn't make any sense.

the green you save with the caviar green is green bills... I buy them because they are a little cheaper per GB and I only use them for slow storage... (raid6 arrays).

I think the op's plan makes sense, but suffers from one flawed assumption.

I don't think a velociraptor is needed.. if you wanted to use a JMicron controller SSD then yes... but an intel X25-M is faster than a velociraptor in EVERYTHING, including random writes!

So it will be FASTER to have the pagefile on the intel ssd than the velociraptor.

I would use intel SSD for pagefile, os, and a FEW programs and games... bigger programs, other games, and all local storage and scratch (eg, torrent downloading location) would be a second drive, a caviar blue... and all the data on the computer will be backed up to a raid6 zfs server running caviar greens via gigabit ethernet