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    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by plympton, May 13, 2011.

  1. plympton

    plympton Notebook Guru

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    After reading the Anandtech article about SSD caching, I got to wondering about it, and I'd like something similar, but not identical.

    I'm paranoid about SSD's and boot partitions - SSD's have an ability to go into comas, and a wrong turn in Windows can easily prevent booting. Right now, I have a 90gb Vertex 2 as my applications and boot drive, and a 320gb drive for random storage. All my work fits in the SSD right now. The 320 gb is a copy of my SSD, with a 2nd partition for storage.

    But can I do some creative RAID setup? Can I RAID 1 the 2 drives, and use only 90 gb of the 320gb HDD for RAID, and the rest a normal partition? If that works, what would the performance be? Can I preferentially say that the Ssd is the Master drive in a raid and all reads/writes mainly come from it?

    I suppose I could schedule folder syncs from the ssd to the hdd, but it would be nice if there was a more transparent option.

    And I looked high and low for information on this. Intel's sit has very little, and Lenovo's has no documentation that I could find.
     
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    Upon more research (general question "i have a 250gb and a 500gb drive, can I raid them and use the extra space?) didn't prove a conclusive answer, but it sounds like a Really Bad Idea, and maybe something like Rsync (love it on my mac) or SyncBackPro would be better for what I'm looking for...
     
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