Quote Originally Posted by tiro_uspsss View Post
... so u 'waste' the other ~600GB on each HDD??

y cant u make a partition out of it & use it for something else? surely just because it is being 'used' doesnt mean that the first/'fast' partition will suffer will it? - i understand that it would suffer performance-wise *IF* a read/write occurs @ same time on diff partitions - but will it still be affected if the remaining partition is barely accessed? i cant imagine that it should be
Tiro, that's what I've been posting seemingly repeatedly for days, using the "waste" disk area for rarely-accessed archive data, but no-one seems to be listening. I guess some people just have more money than sense in the pursuit of speed... But then we can talk, using i-RAMs!

The thing about the i-RAM of course (especially a pair of them) is it avoids this whole issue completely, since the OS/PF sits on that and you never have these sort of continual disk contention issues with OS access. Best solution all round, really, and still totally pwns everything discussed in this thread for access and streaming speed.