On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Dwayne Reid wrote= : > Just coming in near the end of this thread, but why wouldn't you use > a solid-state drive for your OS? From the reports that I've read, > these things reduce boot time by a full order of magnitude. > > Since you are concerned with the OS booting quickly, I'd get the > smallest SSD that works. That would be somewhere near 128GB for me > (OS plus whatever programs need to run at boot time). > > You can use conventional hard drives for your other storage needs. > > That's what I do now, but I'm going to put the SSD in RAID 0. Whatever I get, I'm going to put into RAID 0. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .