I have used RAID 0 in one of my laptop, could not notice too much of speed increase. I have not got an SSD but now I am only sleeping my laptop, and when I open the screen I can type my password straight away and work. Better than any booting technology from any type of storage. Tamas On 16 February 2012 21:27, V G wrote: > 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. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .