I have read the RAID sticky at the top of this forum. Still have questions.
I'm about to build a new desktop computer for a small home business. I am planning to use (2) SSD's 60gb each. I am planning to have a 1tb external drive for storage. The reason I chose to use SSD's is for speed. It's a concern with a specific software I am planning to run.
I have architecture questions.
The (2) 60gb SSD's are not enough capacity to store all the data I will generate with this computer. I am wanting to reserve those SSD's only for the Windows 7 Pro operating system, Office Pro and my own industry specific software. I don't want to save anything on these SSD's.
I want to use the external 1TB hard drive to do the actual storage of my data. Thats going to be a regular old SATA 7200RPM HDD.
Pardon me for not using the proper terminology. I'm a newbie to this type of architecture/configuration. Do I want to RAID those two SSD's? I want speed. I want read/write capability.
But if I RAID those 2 drives - is that pointless since I plan to save out to the external 1TB drive?
I don't even know how to configure a RAID setup or if I would need a 3rd or 4th SSD to do it.
Thanks for any help.
I'm about to build a new desktop computer for a small home business. I am planning to use (2) SSD's 60gb each. I am planning to have a 1tb external drive for storage. The reason I chose to use SSD's is for speed. It's a concern with a specific software I am planning to run.
I have architecture questions.
The (2) 60gb SSD's are not enough capacity to store all the data I will generate with this computer. I am wanting to reserve those SSD's only for the Windows 7 Pro operating system, Office Pro and my own industry specific software. I don't want to save anything on these SSD's.
I want to use the external 1TB hard drive to do the actual storage of my data. Thats going to be a regular old SATA 7200RPM HDD.
Pardon me for not using the proper terminology. I'm a newbie to this type of architecture/configuration. Do I want to RAID those two SSD's? I want speed. I want read/write capability.
But if I RAID those 2 drives - is that pointless since I plan to save out to the external 1TB drive?
I don't even know how to configure a RAID setup or if I would need a 3rd or 4th SSD to do it.
Thanks for any help.