I do wonder though, a lot of the time when I encounter bad uncommented half-working code, it's by some foreign freelancer. Why are they often so awful and how do they get away with it?
If you had 2 SSDs, one 500gb, and another 1tb. Can you split the 1tb into two 500 parititons, and RAID 0 the lot for a minor speed bump + 1.5tb space, or is JBOD a better option?