Hard Drive Configuration?

[GuitarFreak]

I have 2 500GB drives, 1 1.5TB drive, 1 160GB drive, and 1 320GB drive. I've had an OS on all but the 1.5TB drive, which is my newest. I'd like to replace all of the smaller drives with 2 more 1.5 or 2TB drives. I'm actually running out of space too. Before I cleaned up a bunch of junk, I had about 200GB free. Now I have around 450GB.

[EspoNation]

I have 1tb drive, a 500gb external which is pretty much filled, and just built a dual disk JBOD enclosure with like 340gb. Want an SSD been looking at the 40gb Intel one... Someday though when I can get a job lolz.

[henrythe9th]

2 WD 320g raid 1 OS
1 WD 500g storage
1 160 g storage

pc 2
1 Scsi 74g OS
2 x WD 160 storage

Media pc
1 WD 36 raptor OS
1 WD 1tb storage
1 WD 500 storage
1 WD 320 storage

[sluflyer06]

OS/Games/Apps: 3x WD Re3's 250GB in Raid 0
Storage/My Doc/etc: 1TB WD Black

[kwiksilver]

I guess I might as well reply as I thought up the poll after all.

80gb Intel SSD and a seagate 320gb for storage.

[Orac]

i got 2 raptors in raid 0 for OS and 2 500gig caviars in raid 0 for storage.

[Nagoshi]

RAID0 is too dangerous for regular use, so I reverted back to regular drives. Two 320GB Blue AAKS and two 640GB Black, I use both Blue drives... one for the OS, the other for softwares and games. Gonna format one of my two Blacks (one was used in my 754 rig) and use it as a data drive, then clean up the other Black (it's full at 95% of backups and an old install).

[Maniac]

Originally Posted by Nagoshi

RAID0 is too dangerous for regular use, so I reverted back to regular drives. Two 320GB Blue AAKS and two 640GB Black, I use both Blue drives... one for the OS, the other for softwares and games. Gonna format one of my two Blacks (one was used in my 754 rig) and use it as a data drive, then clean up the other Black (it's full at 95% of backups and an old install).

I've been using Raid 0 for 7 years and haven't had a drive fail yet. 1 Set of drives for 2 years, 2 sets of drives for 2 years after that.

I keep my critical data backed up.

[OS-Wiz]

60GB SSD = For OS, including pagefile, all apps
150GB VelociRaptor = part1 backs up SSD, part2 some high use data files
320GB WD = bulk storage
640Gb WD = part1 backs up bulk storage drive, part2 backs up VelociRaptor part 2

[nanoprobe]

1 Intel 40 GB SSD for O/S and programs. 1 Hitachi Deskstar 1TB for everything else.

[Nagoshi]

Originally Posted by Maniac

I've been using Raid 0 for 7 years and haven't had a drive fail yet. 1 Set of drives for 2 years, 2 sets of drives for 2 years after that.

I keep my critical data backed up.

Wasn't saying this as a point to start a flame or whatever. I used a RAID0 config on my AM2+ setup, however I found out that minor speed increase is not exactly worth the ~8 extra seconds boot time because of the stupid RAID BIOS manager autodetecting the drives each time.

It was definitively nice to have tho while carrying larger files.

[WiCKeD]

Being unbiased, I am an equal opportunity employer!

Drive:
1. To quickly help me buy more crap
2. ...and watch porn.

[PommieB]

Asus laptop with 160g Intel SSD and 500g WD, external storage 3 x samsung 1TB, 2 x 2.5" 250g Momentus drives ( removed from Laptop ) Desktop 2 x 320g Seagate drives also a 250g 2.5" WD drive in exteral enclosure for laptop. Storage is esata, can be used on laptop and desktop, can also be set up as a raid array.

[Maniac]

Originally Posted by Nagoshi

Wasn't saying this as a point to start a flame or whatever. I used a RAID0 config on my AM2+ setup, however I found out that minor speed increase is not exactly worth the ~8 extra seconds boot time because of the stupid RAID BIOS manager autodetecting the drives each time.

It was definitively nice to have tho while carrying larger files.

I know

Ah, on the my intel board at least it's less than 2 seconds wait time. On my AMD board it's about 8. But I almost never restart either PC sooo

[FX5200]

I have a 500GB SATA drive for OS, games, ect, and a 250GB IDE drive for storage, movies, music, ect...

[Nagoshi]

Originally Posted by Maniac

I know

Ah, on the my intel board at least it's less than 2 seconds wait time. On my AMD board it's about 8. But I almost never restart either PC sooo

Yeah it's something I couldn't stand. Of course it was a bit snappier.... I had short-stroked everything to get the first 80GB of my drives, so I had 160GB total, and it was quite snappy

[jwigeland]

O/S Drive: 2x Kingston SSD-Now E Series 32GB Raid 0
Storage Drive: WD Caviar Black 1TB

Can someone explain why Vista takes up almost 40GB? LOL

[Reborn8]

I currently run 1 300 GB WD VelociRaptor for my O.S. and programs/games (1 50 gig partition for O.S. and 1 250 gig partition for games/programs) and 1 WD Black Cavier 1 Terabyte drive for multimedia storage.

Looking at getting a SSD for the O.S. and the games/programs though for the near future.

[PommieB]

Vista doesn't, with the exception of ultimate, which includes a lot more extra's.

[Maniac]

Originally Posted by jwigeland

O/S Drive: 2x Kingston SSD-Now E Series 32GB Raid 0
Storage Drive: WD Caviar Black 1TB

Can someone explain why Vista takes up almost 40GB? LOL

Because it uses 15% of your drive for Shadow storage (System restore) space. If you want to reduce that you have to do it through the command prompt.

edit:
15% isn't much on a 64 GB raid array, I have no idea why Vista is using that much space for you. It should be more like 15 GB.