SSD, hybrid or Velociraptor?

[Jay Vaughan]

> All things considered, does anybody have some good advice?

The SSD should be the most-used only stuff, so get whatever you can afford, as small but sufficient and FAST SSD, and put a traditional rust array surrounding it.  I bet you don't use 250gigs of disk space, you just carry it.  Russian-doll style means put the fast, small disk as your most-used data, then image the drive into other traditional drives for 'mode of use' as well as backup/safety.  I can easily boot a small games image on my new macbook, image the disk, put a different one back on again for work, and so on .. mostly though I make do with VM's, which for my ultra-minimal use of Windows really only makes sense in context, I suppose.  But anyway, with SSD and so on, use the system well to mirror things and you probably won't notice much difference when the time comes to put new gamedata on the fast drive, and so on.

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Jay Vaughan