what drive should i have windows 8 installed on for best performance?

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Daveydave

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Hi everyone,
I recently had a hard drive failure in my laptop I had 2 hdd in raid 0 and a 64gb msata caching drive, now dell have replaced the hard drive but have messed up the installation of windows so they are coming back out to reinstall and set up raid again, but my question is should I have windows 8 on my hdd in raid or on my 64gb msata? any help will be appreciated as I don't really know which is best for optimal performance, thanks
 
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RAID at any level in a home environment is generally useless beyond a hobby and something neat to play with.
And every reliable business that has RAID arrays (for whatever purpose) also has a reliable, tested, backup scenario.
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Tough choice.

The mSTA is faster than HDD in RAID 0, but IMHO, a 64GB drive is right on the edge of too small.
The RAID 0 brings size, but the added opportunity for fail. As you have seen.

I'd go with the mSATA, and not bother with the RAID 0 at all.
 
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I install RAID systems at work all the time - I always create a non-RAID drive for the operating system. RAID at work is a necessity for instant recovery/zero down time (having 50 people not working because a server is down does not compare to the cost of a few extra drives).

At home, I NEVER use RAID - I always have an OS drive (usually SSD) and a data drive (usually WD 1TB Black) - and I have one large HDD (4TB WD Black) to backup the drives in other computers. The problems with RAID and home use outweigh their usefulness.

I use SyncBack Free to backup the data drives....and image the OS drives to the backup drive.

My suggestion for you is to setup the MSATA SSD as the OS drive, and the two HDD as data drives. Microsoft has "Storage Spaces" (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/15198.storage-spaces-overview.aspx) that virtually replaces the need for RAID (unless you have high dollar servers with RAID controllers).
 
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thanks for the replies you two much appreciated, ill go with msata for the os this time around, so I had raid before I thought it made the system quicker? should I keep the hdd separate for reliability or go back to raid, im not too sure on pros and cons etc
 
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RAID at any level in a home environment is generally useless beyond a hobby and something neat to play with.
And every reliable business that has RAID arrays (for whatever purpose) also has a reliable, tested, backup scenario.
 
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