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