Dled the trial and ran a couple of benchmarks while I was at it. First, I tested a game load. The game is called path of exile, and the load takes an epic amount of time, seemingly due to a ton of random reads during startup. The system was rebooted between each run to clear the windows memory cache. The OS SSD is a 120GB Samsung 840 EVO, the SSD is a 240GB Samsung 840, and the HDD is a 2TB WD Green. Just so it's crystal clear what I'm doing here, "unpooled" is using the same physical drives that are in the pool, but using the non-pooled space. Pooled is reading from the pooled volume. The OS