I'm about to be building my new system within a week or so and I have two extra HDDs I want to be putting in RAID 0. The problem is though, I already have my OS drive. What I'm asking here is for recommendations on what type of setup I should run here and why. The hard drives I have are a WD 250GB HDD I'm currently using as my OS and I acquired 2x Samsung HDDs, and possibly also using my current 320GB Seagate HDD as well. Below are the configurations I'm thinking of using:

  • Single Boot: 250GB as OS (win7), 2x 320GBs RAID 0 for games / programs
  • Dual Boot: 2x 320GBs RAID 0 for primary OS (win7), 250GB as secondary OS (win8 )
  • Single Boot: 2x RAID 0 (win7)
  • Single Boot: 250GB HDD (win7), set up all 3 of my 320GB HDDs in RAID 5 (2x Samsung, 1x Seagate) for storage / programs / games
  • Single Boot: 3x 320GB RAID 0 (win7), 250GB HDD (win8 )
  • Single Boot: 3x 320GB RAID 0, 250GB HDD (storage - optional)


What do you guys think I should do? I like all of them for different reasons, but I'm unsure which way I should go. Currently, I'm leaning on setting up the first option above, but I also like the RAID 5 option for storage. On a performance level though, the last two options would be the best way to go all around.

IDK. So many different options I have here but not sure which option to go with. This is why I need the help of B3D here.