Storage tips

[rmc1982]

Good evening. I recently retired my old Q9300 mounted on an Asus P5W DH Deluxe with 4GB of ram.
I just bought an Asus Z97-Pro Gamer with an i5 4690K and 16GB DDR3 @ 1866 G.Skill Ripjaws X. Also, I put a 256GB Crucial MX100 SSD (and it came from a raid 0 of 2 Seagate 250GB HDDs, no comments on the change) for the OS and some applications. That raid 0 I now have for games (I don't play much, Diablo III, LoL).
As I use virtual machines, I have a 500GB Seagate that has become too small for me. Well, my idea is to change the 256GB SSD for another 128 for the OS and applications, change the 500GB HDD for a 1TB SSHD (for virtual machines) and the 256GB SSD for games and other apps. What do you think of this configuration for storage? To summarize:

• Crucial MX100 SSD 128GB for OS + apps
• Crucial MX100 SSD 256GB for games + apps
• Seagate SSHD 1TB for virtual machines + other data.

Best regards and thanks in advance.

[Fassou]

Personally I would put more storage capacity, and I wouldn't see a second SSD as necessary, but if you put that in, and you already had a RAID 0 before, I suppose speed is very important in the way you use it.

Salu2!

[rmc1982]

Thanks Fassou. The thing is that before changing the PC I had the raid 0 for the sake of tinkering and well... it was not the panacea but something was noticeable compared to using a single hdd. Now having tried the ssd, the change is simply brutal. I think in the end I leave the ssd for the big stuff and put a 2 tb sshd in it.

Best regards and happy new year!

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[Sylver]

How about a Raid with two 1Tb drives for gaming + virtual machines + data and the MX100 256Gb for the OS?

In fact, if you distribute the space well, you can put some games on the same SSD along with the OS, which would not be a problem.

Best regards