On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:00:37 -0700 Benjamin Franz wrote: > There is a significant mortality rate with consumer grade SSDs. If you > are going to use one, pair it up in a software RAID1 with some matching > partitions on the hard drive and then adjust the RAID to read > preferentially from the SSD. See > http://superuser.com/questions/293144/combining-ssd-and-hard-disk-in-software-raid1 > for some links explaining how to do that. I'm just thinking... I wonder if it would be possible to somehow replicate the OS on both the SSD and the hard drive, such that you could just change the boot device in the bios to point to one or the other. Which wouldn't exactly be a raid (with the overhead that entails) but just a change of boot device as required. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com www.creekfm.com - FIFTY THOUSAND WATTS of POW WOW POWER!