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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
Have plans to purchase two Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB and would like to know where to place the Operating System and Program Files to obtain the most speed. Someone in this thread suggested that XP and Server 2008 should be installed in partitions on the first 150GB of a disk and the Program Files on a second Hard Drive to maximize speed. Does this make any sense? http://forums.slickdeals.net/printth...135 &t=759070 http://tinyurl.com/3q96og Am currently running two copies of XP on my first disk and Server 2008 Workstation on the second. XP is installed on 5.5GB and Server 2008 has 10GB. Program Files are on the same disk in the next partition. If a person is dual booting, would it be better if the Program Files for XP are installed on the second HDD and the ones for Server 2008 installed on the first hard drive? Thanks for taking the time to read this message - |
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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
In article , Richard says...
Have plans to purchase two Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB and would like to know where to place the Operating System and Program Files to obtain the most speed. Someone in this thread suggested that XP and Server 2008 should be installed in partitions on the first 150GB of a disk and the Program Files on a second Hard Drive to maximize speed. Does this make any sense? http://forums.slickdeals.net/printth...135 &t=759070 http://tinyurl.com/3q96og Am currently running two copies of XP on my first disk and Server 2008 Workstation on the second. XP is installed on 5.5GB and Server 2008 has 10GB. Program Files are on the same disk in the next partition. If a person is dual booting, would it be better if the Program Files for XP are installed on the second HDD and the ones for Server 2008 installed on the first hard drive? Thanks for taking the time to read this message - The programs and OS are installed on the fastest drive. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
Conor wrote: In article , Richard says... Have plans to purchase two Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB and would like to know where to place the Operating System and Program Files to obtain the most speed. Someone in this thread suggested that XP and Server 2008 should be installed in partitions on the first 150GB of a disk and the Program Files on a second Hard Drive to maximize speed. Does this make any sense? http://forums.slickdeals.net/printth...135 &t=759070 http://tinyurl.com/3q96og Am currently running two copies of XP on my first disk and Server 2008 Workstation on the second. XP is installed on 5.5GB and Server 2008 has 10GB. Program Files are on the same disk in the next partition. If a person is dual booting, would it be better if the Program Files for XP are installed on the second HDD and the ones for Server 2008 installed on the first hard drive? Thanks for taking the time to read this message - The programs and OS are installed on the fastest drive. And if the two drives are the exact same model? |
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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
In article , Richard says...
Thanks for taking the time to read this message - The programs and OS are installed on the fastest drive. And if the two drives are the exact same model? Doesn't matter. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
"Conor" wrote...
The programs and OS are installed on the fastest drive. And if the two drives are the exact same model? Doesn't matter. Some people will tell you to put the pagefile in a separate partition at the "head" of the second HD, so it can be accessed simultaneously with the OS or Application. I think a lot of partitioning/HD allocation is voodoo/black magic anyhow, highly dependent on individual configuration and use; and most of it will not give you a PERCEIVABLE change in performance. For a while I had my OS on one partition and Apps and data on another. I have switched to put OS and Apps on the boot partition/HD and data only on the second. Separating data from the boot partition makes sense in backup and disaster recovery schemes, but I'm not so sure about Applications any more. Since they are all so dependent on Registry entries, putting them at the "head" of the HD with the OS makes sense. If you are dual-booting, though, and you make equal use of both OSes, I would tend to put 1 OS on each physical HD, so each has the advantage of being in the high-speed cylinders. Put the pagefile for each as close to the OS as possible, and make it statically sized (same initial and max size) so it stays unfragmented. I would still partition one or both of the HDs so data is in a separate partition. |
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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
Turn on RAID0 in your BIOS and use them that way. Worried about
failure? You should have a 500 GB external drive anyway, running periodic backups of important stuff (registry, config files, data, docs). I have four WD 160GB drives, RAID0, which have run 24/7 for 18 months...no problemo whatsoever. Quick (low latency) and fast (throughput). -- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. Douglas Adams |
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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
"Bob Fry" wrote...
Turn on RAID0 in your BIOS and use them that way. Worried about failure? You should have a 500 GB external drive anyway, running periodic backups of important stuff (registry, config files, data, docs). With RAID 0, make that VERY frequent! Win XP barfed on an update at one point, breaking the RAID 0 array on my machine. While I had recent data backups, rebuilding the system was a PITA! If you do RAID 0, make sure you have full HD images (Acronis, Ghost, or similar) to restore, and test them periodically to ensure they WILL restore! |
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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:58:56 -0700, "JR Weiss"
wrote: "Bob Fry" wrote... Turn on RAID0 in your BIOS and use them that way. Worried about failure? You should have a 500 GB external drive anyway, running periodic backups of important stuff (registry, config files, data, docs). With RAID 0, make that VERY frequent! Win XP barfed on an update at one point, breaking the RAID 0 array on my machine. While I had recent data backups, rebuilding the system was a PITA! If you do RAID 0, make sure you have full HD images (Acronis, Ghost, or similar) to restore, and test them periodically to ensure they WILL restore! I wouldn't bother with RAID 0. In practise it has made negligable improvement to my system and the reasons above outweigh any benefit IMHO. -- (\__/) M. (='.'=) Owing to the amount of spam posted via googlegroups and (")_(") their inaction to the problem. I am blocking most articles posted from there. If you wish your postings to be seen by everyone you will need use a different method of posting. See http://improve-usenet.org |
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Getting the most speed from two hard drives?
"Mark" wrote...
Win XP barfed on an update at one point, breaking the RAID 0 array on my machine. While I had recent data backups, rebuilding the system was a PITA! If you do RAID 0, make sure you have full HD images (Acronis, Ghost, or similar) to restore, and test them periodically to ensure they WILL restore! I wouldn't bother with RAID 0. In practise it has made negligable improvement to my system and the reasons above outweigh any benefit IMHO. I tend to agree. However, the performance increase with RAID 0 was perceivable to me. I decided after that affair that it was not worth the risks, though... |
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