RAID and Mixed Media

[Santley_88]

I am in the process of building a mixed use PC. Some gaming and content creation. I understand the idea behind having an SSD for OS and Critical Apps and HDD for file storage, etc... I had this idea that I would like to run by the community to get your thoughts. First, since this is usually the first question asked, budget is not too much of an issue. I don't want to get stupid, but I don't have too many cost constraints.

Plan: 2 x 1TB SSD in some RAID configuration for OS and Critical Files and and scratch drive working space(Win 10, Office, Adobe CC, etc...) With a 4 drive HDD Raid Array for Data. This seems somewhat extreme, so thought that I would see what you all thought.

Thanks

Sam

 

[kanewolf]

RAID 1 for your OS is usually more trouble than it is worth. Use the cost of the second 1TB SSD toward a NAS to back up all this stuff.

RAID is not a substitute from backups. If it is important, then you should have 3 unique copies of it ...