Sabertooth P67, SSD, HDD, And the combination that suits me

[TechRookie16]

As mentioned in the title, my motherboard is a Sabertooth P67. Recently I purchased 2 Vertex 4 SSD from spinejam. (Transaction was excellent btw)

I wanted to purchase 1 for my OS and a few of my favorite games but he gave me a offer that was just too good. I also have a 500gb WD 7600 rpm HDD I've been using on my current build. I want to wipe the current hard drive (nothing of significance is on it) And reinstall Windows 7 on my SSD.

Any opinions with what I should do with the rest of my hardware? The other SSD for my steam games directory? I've considered RAID 0 but in the end I've decided against it. I don't see enough benefits against a lot of the negative I've read.

My Sabertooth has 2 6GB SATA connectors. I've looked up the basics of installing the hardware but any exceptions for my motherboard/SSD/or number of storage units that could allow me to do something cool, I'd love to hear it.

Both Vertex 4's are 128gb

Thank you in advance

 

[TechRookie16]

Ok thank you for all the feedback, after hours of juggling your opinions I have an idea.

1 SSD- 128 GB - OS and APPS
1 SSD- 128 GB - Direct Steam Games to be saved there
1 HDD- 500GB - Place Music and Videos etc.

My next question is, will this work? :0
But seriously I've never had more then one hard drive and now I have 3? Basically I'm asking, so if I download Itunes on the OS and APPS but my music is on the 500GB HDD, will it still play no problem as long as I have it set up for that directory?

 

[TechRookie16]

Anybody?

 

[kbp]

With two identical drives may I ask why you would not RAID-0 ?

 

[groberts101]

I wondered the very same thing as well. And especially since they're only 128GB drives which are considered small'ish by todays standards.

Contrary to popular belief.. R0 is not just about speed and the capacity gains can be worthwhile in itself.

Also consider that those drives do just fine without trim capability in riad if your particular hardware config doesn't allow passthrough. Of you can run mod'd OROM to enable it on 6 series or newer, if you'd prefer it over the firmware's built in GC algorithms.

Course.. in that arrangement?.. I'd probably recommend another HDD just to use as a duplicate OS volume for quick disaster recovery. Tough to have too many OS volumes when the going gets rough.

PS. raid failures are way overblown, though obviously need to be considered, and I run them on everything that allows its implementation. Aside from self-inflicted stupidity(such as heavy OC and writing drives seperately when the array is off-line).. I've never lost an array in more than 10 years. And yes.. I've lost power more than a few times and quite literally yanked the plug out of the wall to test data/array integrity with write-caching enabled.

 

[Geforce man]

I have a similar setup:

intel 520 60gb: Windows
Intel 320 120gb: Steam games
500GB WD Blue: Music/movies

 

[TechRookie16]

KBP/Groberts it just seemed like every other article I read on RAID0 made it sound like you were really gambling to lose both your drives and all your information with failure of a SSD.

Besides to run RAID0, how expensive of a controller would I need?

 

[kbp]

Controller - You already have. Drivers come with the motherboard CD.
RAID 0 your system and "backup" to a spinner drive. I doubt you'll ever have a failure.
Read the manual on how to execute a RAID volume that came with you board. It's simple and easy to do.
You can thank me later...........