Safe/Reliable Boot Disk

[AnthonyMooreDevices]

I hope this is in the right place, I have 2 HDDs going into RAID 0 & I'm about to put My 2 SSDs in JBOD to save a SATA port & heard it was not safe/possible to put your OS on JBOD/RAID so which would be best?
-External HDD
-SD Card
-CD
-Flash Drive
-Partition on JBOD/RAID?
Thanks in advance for the help!

 

[USAFRet]

What SSD's are these?

List of all drives, and what you use this system for.

 

[AnthonyMooreDevices]

What SSD's are these?

List of all drives, and what you use this system for.

For gaming mostly & I have 2x1TB WD Gold(RAID 0), 2x480GB AMD R7/R3 SSDs(JBOD), & 1x2TB WD External HDD, I also have 2 Optical Blu-Ray Drives & an eSATA port, but I only have 6 SATA ports so I have to JBOD the SSDs

 

[USAFRet]

What SSD's are these?

List of all drives, and what you use this system for.

For gaming mostly & I have 2x1TB WD Gold(RAID 0), 2x480GB AMD R7/R3 SSDs(JBOD), & 1x2TB WD External HDD, I also have 2 Optical Blu-Ray Drives & an eSATA port, but I only have 6 SATA ports so I have to JBOD the SSDs

2 x 1TB HDD
2 x 480GB SSD
1 x 2TB HDD
2 x ODD

Ditch one of the ODD's
OS and applications go on one and only one 480GB SSD. No RAID or JBOD.
The rest...up to you.

 

[AnthonyMooreDevices]

What SSD's are these?

List of all drives, and what you use this system for.

For gaming mostly & I have 2x1TB WD Gold(RAID 0), 2x480GB AMD R7/R3 SSDs(JBOD), & 1x2TB WD External HDD, I also have 2 Optical Blu-Ray Drives & an eSATA port, but I only have 6 SATA ports so I have to JBOD the SSDs

2 x 1TB HDD
2 x 480GB SSD
1 x 2TB HDD
2 x ODD

Ditch one of the ODD's
OS and applications go on one and only one 480GB SSD. No RAID or JBOD.
The rest...up to you.

Yeh but I want this PC to be a testament of all the things PC can do, that Consoles can't, that's why I'm going kinda overboard, I just wanted to know if there was a reliable way to boot with the current setup?

 

[USAFRet]

Yeh but I want this PC to be a testament of all the things PC can do, that Consoles can't, that's why I'm going kinda overboard, I just wanted to know if there was a reliable way to boot with the current setup?

And a single SSD beats the snot out of 2x HDD in RAID 0.
Faster and more reliable.

Do you want better, or do you just want more weirdly complex?

 

[AnthonyMooreDevices]

Yeh but I want this PC to be a testament of all the things PC can do, that Consoles can't, that's why I'm going kinda overboard, I just wanted to know if there was a reliable way to boot with the current setup?

And a single SSD beats the snot out of 2x HDD in RAID 0.
Faster and more reliable.

Do you want better, or do you just want more weirdly complex?

Definitely weird lol I want people to look at the list of parts & go "what?" XD but I don't want to do it if I can't boot Windows... That'd be stupid

 

[USAFRet]

Definitely weird lol I want people to look at the list of parts & go "what?" XD but I don't want to do it if I can't boot Windows... That'd be stupid

You want weirdly complex that works perfectly?

My house system:
PC - 5 x SATA III SSD, totaling ~2TB, 1x ODD
NAS box - 4x 4TB HDD, RAID 5
USB enclosure connected to the NAS box - 8TB HDD, 2x 3TB HDD, 2TB HDD.

IN the PC, each drive has its own purpose in life.
OS and applications
Photo work
CAD/3D/video work
Games/Doc
scratch/cache space for all of the above

In the NAS box:
Backups, 3TB of movies, music, long term storage.

etc etc...


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