Which partitions would you put on software raid0?

I'm impatiently waiting for my Alienware m17x r3 laptop to be delivered.



I went with this system primarily because of the 4 RAM slots and the two internal 2.5" drives.



Since the primary OS will be Gentoo, there will be a lot of compiling going on for software updates. ..



Here is what I'm thinking so far:



swap

/tmp

/var/tmp/portage (for emerge compiles)

/usr/portage (for quick emerge queries and syncs)

/mnt/virtualbox (this will be for virtualbox images)

/var/db (for eix queries and updates)





All these directories contain non-essential data that I can recreate if the raid fails .. also they contain things that will benefit (I believe) in IO improvements.



What would you put on RAID 0? What am I forgetting?



--- Additionally, should I consider SSD for one of the drives and bypass software RAID0 completely?

Reply 1 : Which partitions would you put on software raid0?

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Originally Posted by psymin --- Additionally, should I consider SSD for one of the drives and bypass software RAID0 completely?

Yes. 100%.