does this make sense at all?

AyashiKaibutsu

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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

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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. :p

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

 

AyashiKaibutsu

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

taltamir

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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. :p

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