Alienware 17 hard drive set up?

CodeZero68

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Jan 16, 2014
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ok so im getting an alienware 17 laptop, it has room for an msata ssd and two hard drive bays, im getting a 250gb msata for the os but i cant decide what to put in the hard drive bays and if to use raid or not, i will be using it for mostly multitasking but also for games and Photoshop. the budget is around $500 and looking for a combined capacity of 1.5tb or more. i would like a nice mix of performance and reliability, a bit more towards reliability as i will be abroad and dont want to have to fix and futz with stuff while there