Trying to figure out the most secure way to implement a multi purpose setup with a view to keeping a part of the system extra clean and secure - dedicated to online trading, gambling and accounting purposes.
Then keep that segregated from other areas dedicated to:
- gaming (various community patches, .exe files, mods etc and all the risk that entails)
- video editing, including possibly one or 2 copies of editing software that may possibly have fallen off the back of a lorry in China.
- MAYBE torrents and/or newsgroups.
- general hacks and tweaks to improve the system that may not be approved by Microsoft and/or Apple overlords and be by vetted and identifiable publishers.
So, I have a hackintosh build at the moment with dual boot/dual HD windows 10 and OSX. The original plan was the Mac was the secure trading system, but now I'm moving towards a piece of software that I need to implement automated trading that is PC native (metatrader). So, I'm paranoid about trading on my gaming HD/OS, which I generally treat with less caution than the mac OS. There is also the benefit of the systems being incompatible. So if I happened to open a dodgy .exe on the PC when installing a gaming mod, it's unlikely to leap over to OSX.
I considered adding a new drive and a new copy of windows 10 or 7 (I have a 7 disk somewhere), triple booting and calling the 2nd copy of windows my secure system. But, I realise if the partition can be seen from one Windows boot to the other that kind of ruins the plan, even if they are on separate HDs. Unless I disconnect the more scary HD each time I boot up the trading "clean" HD/OS. Is that correct?
Any suggestions would be appreciated outside of building a new system. This is about as powerful a machine as I can make for a long time, so it needs to serve many functions.
Obtaining another copy of any necessary OS is not an issue.
Also interested in hardware solutions, such as a hard drive bay that allows me to easily unplug an internal (at the flick of a switch perhaps?).
Your help is greatly appreciated.
Then keep that segregated from other areas dedicated to:
- gaming (various community patches, .exe files, mods etc and all the risk that entails)
- video editing, including possibly one or 2 copies of editing software that may possibly have fallen off the back of a lorry in China.
- MAYBE torrents and/or newsgroups.
- general hacks and tweaks to improve the system that may not be approved by Microsoft and/or Apple overlords and be by vetted and identifiable publishers.
So, I have a hackintosh build at the moment with dual boot/dual HD windows 10 and OSX. The original plan was the Mac was the secure trading system, but now I'm moving towards a piece of software that I need to implement automated trading that is PC native (metatrader). So, I'm paranoid about trading on my gaming HD/OS, which I generally treat with less caution than the mac OS. There is also the benefit of the systems being incompatible. So if I happened to open a dodgy .exe on the PC when installing a gaming mod, it's unlikely to leap over to OSX.
I considered adding a new drive and a new copy of windows 10 or 7 (I have a 7 disk somewhere), triple booting and calling the 2nd copy of windows my secure system. But, I realise if the partition can be seen from one Windows boot to the other that kind of ruins the plan, even if they are on separate HDs. Unless I disconnect the more scary HD each time I boot up the trading "clean" HD/OS. Is that correct?
Any suggestions would be appreciated outside of building a new system. This is about as powerful a machine as I can make for a long time, so it needs to serve many functions.
Obtaining another copy of any necessary OS is not an issue.
Also interested in hardware solutions, such as a hard drive bay that allows me to easily unplug an internal (at the flick of a switch perhaps?).
Your help is greatly appreciated.