Drive Configuration and setup

boni · 16th Dec 2006, 06:16 AM

I have an existing areca 1110 raid card with 2x36gb raptors, 1x 250gb sata hitachi drive

and will be aquiring the 320 -2x with scsi drives. Or shall i get a normal host scsi card

I am interested to put both in my K8we system. As both are using the PCI-X slot, will it affect the speed of each raid card?

Whats the drive configuration that is recommned? I play mainly games, design stuff-cad, 3dmax, listen to music, dvd and every things else

My plan setup after reading the nice long articles on pagefile
OS - scsi hdd (36gb)
Pagefile - scsi hdd (think it is recommended to be as fast as the OS hdd)
sata raid - running games
Applications/ Programs - scsi hdd (36-74gb)

Adrian Wong · 17th Dec 2006, 04:02 AM

Hmm.. Looks good to me...

But unless you don't have much hard drive space, why not create a small paging file on the first partition of each physical drive?

That way, Windows XP will automatically use any or all drives that are not active for paging, increasing the overall throughput.

16th Dec 2006, 06:16 AM	#1 (permalink)
boni Newbie Join Date: 16 Dec 2006 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	Drive Configuration and setup I have an existing areca 1110 raid card with 2x36gb raptors, 1x 250gb sata hitachi drive and will be aquiring the 320 -2x with scsi drives. Or shall i get a normal host scsi card I am interested to put both in my K8we system. As both are using the PCI-X slot, will it affect the speed of each raid card? Whats the drive configuration that is recommned? I play mainly games, design stuff-cad, 3dmax, listen to music, dvd and every things else My plan setup after reading the nice long articles on pagefile OS - scsi hdd (36gb) Pagefile - scsi hdd (think it is recommended to be as fast as the OS hdd) sata raid - running games Applications/ Programs - scsi hdd (36-74gb)

17th Dec 2006, 04:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
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