https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/can-you-split-ssd-520-480gb-into-boot-and-acceleration/m-p/21058#M9171 <P>...and a followup question...</P><P>Any alternate recommendations, like:</P><P>Use the Spinning disk as boot/OS/data and accelerate that, then use the remaining partion space (about 383GB) as %TEMP% and expendable data.</P><P></P><P>e²</P> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:38:46 GMT idata 2013-01-12T23:38:46Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/can-you-split-ssd-520-480gb-into-boot-and-acceleration/m-p/21057#M9170 <P>Tell me if this is a) Possible and b) Recommended.</P><P></P><P>Intel DZ77RE-75K Mobo</P><P>SATA0: Intel SSD 520 480Gig</P><P>SATA1: Any other SATA drive, currently ST32000641AS</P><P></P><P>I had the idea to install Win7 x64 just shy of 64GB of space for use with IRST acceleration.</P><P>Install Win7 on it as the Boot/OS drive.</P><P>Add the second spinning HD on SATA1 for programs/data.</P><P>Accelerate the spinning drive with IRST.</P><P></P><P>It seems to me that it would be the best of both worlds.</P><P>Can it be done? (before i waste my time)</P><P>What is the downside, other than the traditional warnings about SSD potential data failure on C:?</P><P></P><P>e²</P> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:33:39 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/can-you-split-ssd-520-480gb-into-boot-and-acceleration/m-p/21057#M9170 idata 2013-01-12T23:33:39Z https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/can-you-split-ssd-520-480gb-into-boot-and-acceleration/m-p/21058#M9171 <P>...and a followup question...</P><P>Any alternate recommendations, like:</P><P>Use the Spinning disk as boot/OS/data and accelerate that, then use the remaining partion space (about 383GB) as %TEMP% and expendable data.</P><P></P><P>e²</P> Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:38:46 GMT https://community.solidigm.com/t5/solid-state-drives-nand/can-you-split-ssd-520-480gb-into-boot-and-acceleration/m-p/21058#M9171 idata 2013-01-12T23:38:46Z