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Re: [Digital BW] Scratch Disk

2008-01-29 by Richard Smallfield

So how many physical hard drives does that give you?

If you had Raid 0 for everything surely that would be a lot of drives?

I'm wondering if I could do that with a Scratch partition on each of my two IDE storage drives.

thanks,
Richard

At 11:07 AM Wednesday 1/30/2008, you wrote:
>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.

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