Digital BW, The Print

I use a RAID 0 pair of 36gb 10,000 rpm drives for my scratch disk.  This
gives me a scratch disk of 72gb that is more than enough and very FAST.  I
have also used this configuration for my C  (system) drive in the past but
this is a dangerous way to go if you don¹t back up frequently.  With faster
SATA II drives I am now configuring my C (system) drive as a pair of RAID 1
drives.  This is reasonably fast and 100% fault tolerent.

Paul


On 1/29/08 1:52 PM, "Greg" <dfaprinting@...> wrote:

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>> > For a given $ spend I actually think its better to invest in the best
> Raid0
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>> > Still testing.
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> Yes, RAID 0 with fast drives can make swap files really speed along.
> The performance increase back in the days of ATA33 drives was very
> noticeable. I haven't done much with stuff like this in a while, but it
> still makes the most sense to put the swap disk functions on a
> completely separate drive from the OS.
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> If you have the space available, putting the system swap file (page
> file) on one RAID array (1 controller) and the Photoshop scratch disk
> on another RAID array (second controller) should give you the most
> speed possible.
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