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Chai · 12th Jun 2006, 07:18 AM

Isn't 120GB a bit small?

Dashken · 12th Jun 2006, 11:47 AM

Get two 500GB hdd and do whatever RAID you want.

jamotto · 12th Jun 2006, 01:04 PM

Maybe more memory MB's wise? or a harddrive with a larger buffer or faster spinning motor?

@ Chai

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Isn't 120GB a bit small?

Just had a flashback, I still have a 212 MB harddrive sitting around here as a paper weight. I never thought I'd fill that drive.

eg660 · 12th Jun 2006, 04:25 PM

More mem MB wise? I dont understand are you talking about ram?

Anyway...will it improve the performance of my rig if I buy a new hdd?

One question...what does raid do for the performance of my computer

jamotto · 13th Jun 2006, 04:35 AM

yes, total ram. You have 2GB right now, you could put more ram in, if you system can handle it.

As for RAID the wikipedia has a decent page on it here. RAID 0 is commonly used to speed things up.

Papercut · 13th Jun 2006, 11:50 AM

2GB RAM is plenty, I don't see why he should add more.

PsYkHoTiK · 13th Jun 2006, 12:59 PM

RAID 0 does almost nothing in real world applications.

jamotto · 13th Jun 2006, 03:45 PM

@Papercut

XP scales well with extra memory, the O/S will find a use for the extra memory (reduce page file usage, increase disk cache size, etc). Assuming I found the right board it will take upto 3GB, but will only run the memory at 166MHz instead of 200MHz.

@PsYkHoTiK

Of all the systems I have setup using RAID 0, I have almost always seen improvements in performance, the only times I didn't was when I set the striped set too small, But with everything else peoples milage can vary.

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jamotto Active Join Date: 3 Mar 2005 Posts: 523 Reputation: 335 Rep Power: 9	@Papercut XP scales well with extra memory, the O/S will find a use for the extra memory (reduce page file usage, increase disk cache size, etc). Assuming I found the right board it will take upto 3GB, but will only run the memory at 166MHz instead of 200MHz. @PsYkHoTiK Of all the systems I have setup using RAID 0, I have almost always seen improvements in performance, the only times I didn't was when I set the striped set too small, But with everything else peoples milage can vary.

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