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Fat_Hylian
By Fat_Hylian
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Okay, So i'm building my first computer and plan on starting a youtube channel, i bought a msi gaming 5 Z97 MOBO, i want to use the sata M.2 port and 2 HDD 1TB WD blues in raid 1, can i use the m.2 as my boot drive and leave it out of the raid?

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Yah. You can. In fact I recommend doing just that. I doubt the m.2 port supports it anyway. 

muh specs 

Gaming and HTPC (reparations)- ASUS 1080, MSI X99A SLI Plus, 5820k- 4.5GHz @ 1.25v, asetek based 360mm AIO, RM 1000x, 16GB memory, 750D with front USB 2.0 replaced with 3.0  ports, 2 250GB 850 EVOs in Raid 0 (why not, only has games on it), some hard drives

Screens- Acer preditor XB241H (1080p, 144Hz Gsync), LG 1080p ultrawide, (all mounted) directly wired to TV in other room

Stuff- k70 with reds, steel series rival, g13, full desk covering mouse mat

All parts black

Workstation(desk)- 3770k, 970 reference, 16GB of some crucial memory, a motherboard of some kind I don't remember, Micomsoft SC-512N1-L/DVI, CM Storm Trooper (It's got a handle, can you handle that?), 240mm Asetek based AIO, Crucial M550 256GB (upgrade soon), some hard drives, disc drives, and hot swap bays

Screens- 3  ASUS VN248H-P IPS 1080p screens mounted on a stand, some old tv on the wall above it. 

Stuff- Epicgear defiant (solderless swappable switches), g600, moutned mic and other stuff. 

Laptop docking area- 2 1440p korean monitors mounted, one AHVA matte, one samsung PLS gloss (very annoying, yes). Trashy Razer blackwidow chroma...I mean like the J key doesn't click anymore. I got a model M i use on it to, but its time for a new keyboard. Some edgy Utechsmart mouse similar to g600. Hooked to laptop dock for both of my dell precision laptops. (not only docking area)

Shelf- i7-2600 non-k (has vt-d), 380t, some ASUS sandy itx board, intel quad nic. Currently hosts shared files, setting up as pfsense box in VM. Also acts as spare gaming PC with a 580 or whatever someone brings. Hooked into laptop dock area via usb switch

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Okay, So i'm building my first computer and plan on starting a youtube channel, i bought a msi gaming 5 Z97 MOBO, i want to use the sata M.2 port and 2 HDD 1TB WD blues in raid 1, can i use the m.2 as my boot drive and leave it out of the raid?

Yes. RAID allows the OS to address both of the drives as a single drive (among other things like redundancy of course) so you can write data to it and the data will still be protected in case of an OS failure.

 

When you make the RAID array, select the two HDDs and leave out the M.2. Then install the OS to the M.2 and select it in the boot order so that it boots there.

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