Good idea, and I've sorta started (slowly) moving things over (music, iso's, etc) to the new drive so it'll affect performance less. Now, about the pagefile thing ... if it's really a boost, which I could always use lol, could you pm/email me with instructions? (I could go to a site, but I know I'd have questions). Also, most likely I would be putting my music (2000 songs, usually have winamp running when I'm on), movies, cd images, and if possible, games onto the other hard drive. So would it still make sense putting the swap file over there?
you want a pagefile on both drives. XP will pick the one with the lowest current I-O to page to. If both are not having much I-O it pages simultaneously to both. It doesnt help on differant partitoon but on differnat drives it helps a lot. I run most my normal stuff on two 15k scsi drives and have two 120gb IDE's for mp3's, ISO's and stuff. I try and balance the I-O on the two 15k scsi drives as much as possible. OS and programs on one. user files/internet temp and temp files on the the other. Pagefiles on both scsi's etc... The goal is to have it load from one, swap to the other etc...
I should have two but my friend's hd took a crap so until he gets a new one I put all my stuff on my last hd and let him borrow the other.
I know... Not smart. I really need to get a couple more higher capacity drives, cause the one I lent to my friend was only 20 gigs. It had about 15 used and filling fast. My main hd has plenty of space though...
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How do you set up drives in a RAID array? Some kinda software, drivers? Or do I need certain kinds of hard drives? They all have to be the same size right?
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How do you set up drives in a RAID array? Some kinda software, drivers? Or do I need certain kinds of hard drives? They all have to be the same size right?
first you need the supporting hardware like either onboard or pci raid controller. You may have a built in onboard controller and not even realize it.
What mobo do you have?
Anyway you need at least 2 hard drives preferrably identical.
Here's a question, and I think the answer is no, but it's possible. Could I RAID 2 partition on 2 drives, and have it act as one, but have the rest of the drive be like 2 regular, separate hard drives?
Yes you can with software raid. For example with four big drives the first drive could have four partions. One regular to boot from. The second partiton in the first drive could be two drive raid-0 with drive 2. The third pariton could be three drive raid-0 with drives 2 & 3. And the last could be 4 drive raid-0 with drives 2 & 3 & 4 with drive one.
Software drive-0 is very flexible. The downside is many aftermarket disk utility's don't work with it etc..
Ugh. Now you've convinced me I'll have to try it :bawling:. Do you know of any good sources to look up info for making a two-drive RAID partition? And, also, since I'm royally noob with RAID, any sources with info for backing up and restoring in case of failure. And, sorta with that, how I could move my OS over to this new partitiony-RAIDy goodness, or is it better to start over?
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I know... Not smart. I really need to get a couple more higher capacity drives, cause the one I lent to my friend was only 20 gigs. It had about 15 used and filling fast. My main hd has plenty of space though...
EDIT
How do you set up drives in a RAID array? Some kinda software, drivers? Or do I need certain kinds of hard drives? They all have to be the same size right?
What mobo do you have?
Anyway you need at least 2 hard drives preferrably identical.
tex
Software drive-0 is very flexible. The downside is many aftermarket disk utility's don't work with it etc..