I don't think I'd like that arrangement. It's not clear what goes onto
the SSD and the striping between the two would likely double the failure
rate.
Chuck Norcutt
On 6/25/2013 5:45 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> The HDD and SSD are organised as Raid0 as one logical C: drive of a
> nominal 532GB. (Well not quite that simple, there are some other small
> protected partitions for Recovery, swap, etc.) This gives a big speed
> increase but not quite as much as by dedicating the SSD to the OS.
> This is a new concept to me so I only understand the first few
> paragraphs of what I find in Wikipedia etc.
> Jez
>
> On 25/06/2013, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Is the SSD the boot drive?
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 6/25/2013 12:56 PM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
>>> Rather a spur-of-the-moment thing but John Lewis (department store across
>>> UK) had a clearance and I plumped for an ex-demo laptop.
>>>
>>> It's an HP Envy 4-1103ea which means it's an 'ultrabook' (read: no DVD
>>> built-in) and has a touch screen, a 3rd-gen i5 processor, 8GB ram, a 500GB
>>> harddrive and a 32GB SSD. Sockets include HDMI to drive second monitor and
>>> USB 2 and USB3. Of course built-in WiFi and Bluetooth but also WiDi (look
>>> it up!)
>>>
>>> And Win8. If it hadn't been for the touchscreen I'd probably have gone
>>> back to Win7 but I'm slowly learning Win8 (in other words I'm learning how
>>> to make it look like Win7 :-)
>>>
>>> I'm waiting for my external DVD to come from Amazon so I have some stuff I
>>> can't install yet, but I'm having fun playing with it :-)
>>>
>>> End of news bulletin.
>>> Jez
>>> (for enquiring minds £595 with 3-yr guarantee)
>>>
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