in that case i guess the location of MBR partition would not make any difference ...

storage is on a separate 3.5" drive.

i don't want to put windows on a slow drive. i want windows and program files on the same fast drive ( at least 500 GB )
however the drive in question:
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there are some very nice enterprise PCI-E SSD drives ( for example Micron ) that have only one problem - they are not bootable

so i was wondering - is it possible to put the boot partition on a...

extra performance from RAID is free.

would cost the same to run 2 X 250 gb versus 1 X 500 gb because raid is a function of the X299 chipset that Skylake-X CPUs use and motherboard has slots for 3...

on my current raid i did run into a problem as follows - my power supply started failing and system started giving errors and crashing - i had no idea it was power supply until it eventually exploded...

But it's free - you think I can resist that ?

I watched a video where they specifically tested the raid I have in mind - 3 x m.2 SSDs and they said it was worth it ...

As for why not try windows 10 first ... It seems stressful. I want to get...

The problem with this is when I uninstall windows 7 the space will be wasted as I won't be able to add it to the raid with windows 10 on it.

Anybody else think my plan is asking for trouble ? My...

thanks. i read that you should generally install older system first when doing dual boot but then i came across a thread ( don't remember where ) where a guy had two operating systems on two separate...

i'm building a new windows 10 desktop to replace current windows 7 desktop but since all my software is only guaranteed to run on 7 i plan to build the new desktop as a dual boot ( 10 + 7 ) first and...