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Amik

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I'm revamping my storage setup and would appreciate recommendations.

PC Specs:
Sabertooth X79
Intel i7-3820 (overclocked to 4.5)
32GB Ram
EVGA GeForce GTX670 FTW 2048MB GDDR5

What I do (most important programs):
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Premiere
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
RStudio
Processing
Sublime Text
Plex
Autodesk Inventor
Few other programs but all are less intense than the above mentioned.

Available storage (6 total drives):
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD
Intel 520 Series 240GB SSD
Intel 520 Series 240GB SSD

WD Green 4TB Hard Drive
Toshiba 320GB Hard Drive

I'm brainstorming the best set-up and would appreciate some thoughts.

I've thought about a few configurations but I'm afraid I'm a bit maxed out on storage ... just thinking about how to maximize the best setup given the resources at hand.

Thanks!!
 
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With all of the other drives, I would lose the Toshiba 320 GB to simplify this.

Load the OS and the most used programs to one of the Samsung 850 drives. I would keep the active projects on the other Samsung 850. The WD Green is for archival storage. Not sure there is a good use for the Intel 520 drives that have a smaller capacity given the other hardware.
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With all of the other drives, I would lose the Toshiba 320 GB to simplify this.

Load the OS and the most used programs to one of the Samsung 850 drives. I would keep the active projects on the other Samsung 850. The WD Green is for archival storage. Not sure there is a good use for the Intel 520 drives that have a smaller capacity given the other hardware.
 
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Yeah I think you are right about the Toshiba drive. And your suggestion might be the way I go.
I've been contemplating a RAID setup as well.

Samsung 850 array as 1TB for OS and Programs. (RAID 0)
Intel 520 array as 480GB for a scratch disk for OS and Programs. (RAID 0)
WD Green as storage for files/movies/etc.

I'm wondering if this would even work well.
I'm not concerned about redundancy at all.
I know the Samsung array would be crazy fast, but I worry the scratch disk would get bogged down. I've experienced this in the past when I ran both Intel's in a RAID array. Super fast at first but slows down later. But then again, at that time I had no scratch disk for the Intel array to write to.
 
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RAID 0 configurations always make me nervous as they are twice as likely to fail. In addition, unlike with mechanical hard drives, with a RAID 0 SSD configuration you will not get twice the speed as the SATA interface saturates. If anything, I would run the SSD's in RAID 1 to have them backed up all the time!
 
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