Backup drive for boot?

[Razor]

Ok guys so 'Skynet' will (when they finally turn up) have a RAID10 array with 4 3TB barracudas for mass storage etc

It's already got a 240GB Sammy Pro SSD for the boot drive

But I've still got lots of space left in the case and it seems a shame to waste it

Soooo for when I get the inevitable virus - (from Jamie Olivers site really Wine O)???

What's the best way forward? Is it a good idea to pop in a smallish 500GB drive and regularly clone the boot drive to that. I'm thinking wipe and restore might be the easiest option

Any opinions?

[warmadmax]

sure i posted a long reply to this! no matter :)

if it's hardware raid 10 (motherboard or raid card), i'd be tempted to use windows backup of the SSD onto the 6tb raid 10 drives.

if your using windows software based raid, i'd use a seperate drive as you've mentioned, USB one for portability ?

i'm using intel RST on my SSD, basically turns up to 60GB of the SSD into hard drive cache.
so you'd install windows onto the raid volume, it'd leave the rest of the SSD free for game installs :D