Crysalis
Systems Engineer
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I'm dealing with a failing hard drive (WD1501FASS 1.5tb) and considering replacing with an SSD down the road when it does finally die. As we all well know, $/gb sucks with SSD's. Is there any discussion about buying say (2) 120gb drives and running in RAID 0 for $250 as opposed to getting one single 256gb drive for $300+?
I'm not concerned about storage space as I have plenty of other drives (internal and external) I can use for archiving, storage, or what have you, but with all of my regularly used apps, with no "extras" like music, video, etc, my system has ~200gb used up. Obviously that wont work on a 120gb SSD. I have no problems storing my music, pictures, etc externally or on a HDD, but curious what the thoughts are concerning RAID 0 for at least some resolution to $/gb.
Am I crazy?
I'm not concerned about storage space as I have plenty of other drives (internal and external) I can use for archiving, storage, or what have you, but with all of my regularly used apps, with no "extras" like music, video, etc, my system has ~200gb used up. Obviously that wont work on a 120gb SSD. I have no problems storing my music, pictures, etc externally or on a HDD, but curious what the thoughts are concerning RAID 0 for at least some resolution to $/gb.
Am I crazy?