to RAID or not to RAID, and how to relocate the "Users" folder

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Amaro

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Hi,
I wanted to ask what the best possible options are with my current memory and storage setup.

My current storage setup:
1 x HDD Western Digital Black 750 GB (reused from my old PC)
1x HDD Western Digital Black 1 TB (new)
1x SSD Samsung 840 Evo 120 GB (new)

The rest, if needed:
Motherboard: ASUS R.O.G. Maximus VI Hero
CPU: Intel Core i5 4670K
GPU: Gainward GeForce GTX 570 (I got this one for free from a friend and will be upgrading to at least a GTX 770 as soon as the 800 Maxwell series comes out in early 2014 and the prices drop)
RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro Red 2x 8GB (16GB because I'll be using Photoshop quite often, I know it's not much of a use for gaming)
PSU: Corsair Professional Series AX760 (760W)
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H100i
Case: Lian Li PC-A79 Black

I don't care too much about safety, since I don't have extremely important files here, I wouldn't want to loose them though. I use Windows 8.1, upgraded from Windows 7.
It will be a looong time before I'll even use 1 TB of disk space, I don't even really know if it was a good idea to buy a new one, but now that I have it I want to make the best of it.
What Partitions should I make? Where to put what (System on SSD, I guess)? How can I move my Users Folder away from my SSD in order to make some space (It's almost full already) and make use of my other HDDs?
RAID or no RAID (unfortunately, I am not exactly an expert on that stuff), maybe other options I never heard of?

I'd be very glad to hear some recommendations :)!
 
Don't raid, its not really worth it for a home user. Just make backups of the files you don't want to lose onto a cd/dvd.

As far as moving the users folder, you can't. What you can do though is go into the users folder and right click on each of the following folders and click on properties, then click on the location tab and change the location from SSD to HDD.

Documents
Music
Pictures
Downloads
Videos
 
Okay, cool! Thank you for the quick answer!
I think the HDD I should be using primarily is my 1TB one, is that correct?
Is there no intelligent use I can make of my second one, as long as the first one isn't full (which won't happen very soon, if at all)?

What about the other folders in the User directory? Is there a specific reason why you didn't state them, other than them not having a lot of heavy data in them in most cases?
 
As you said, there won't be hardly anything in those other folders.

You could do raid 1 with the 750gb and 1tb but then your losing 250gb from the 1tb drive. When you raid 2 drives they need to be the same size, If they aren't then the big drive will take the space of the smaller drive. Raid 1 would provide data redundancy so you will have a back up copy on the second drive.
 
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