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Raid Array: Faster Startup Times?
Technically I'm no candidate for Raid0: not much Photoshopping,
no video editing.... But I'm a closet type A and the faster my applications (like MS Word....) start up, the less stressed-out I am. If I go to Raid0, will I notice the diff for that kind of use? If so, are 4 drives twice as fast as two? What about block size? 128kb the fastest? -- PeteCresswell |
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Raid Array: Faster Startup Times?
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Technically I'm no candidate for Raid0: not much Photoshopping, no video editing.... But I'm a closet type A and the faster my applications (like MS Word....) start up, the less stressed-out I am. If I go to Raid0, will I notice the diff for that kind of use? If so, are 4 drives twice as fast as two? What about block size? 128kb the fastest? Try an article like this. They used a Gigabyte iRAM device, and tested to see how much performance could be improved. Now, compared to your RAID0 idea, the iRAM has close to zero seek time. There may be another review or two around, where someone used the iRAM in a RAID array, but the iRAM doesn't work properly with hardware RAID cards (because the SATA emulation isn't good enough). It does work with some Southbridge RAID interfaces. Someone over on 2cpu.com tested a handful of iRAMs, on some hardware RAID cards. http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=2480 So a RAID0 made from hard drives, will give less of a boost than the charts in that article, due to seek time not changing. If the operation you're trying to speed up, is dominated by head movement (seek), then RAID0 won't help with that. RAID0 is going to help a lot with Photoshop read/write times, or scratch disk operation. Paul |
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Raid Array: Faster Startup Times?
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message ... Technically I'm no candidate for Raid0: not much Photoshopping, no video editing.... But I'm a closet type A and the faster my applications (like MS Word....) start up, the less stressed-out I am. If I go to Raid0, will I notice the diff for that kind of use? If so, are 4 drives twice as fast as two? What about block size? 128kb the fastest? -- PeteCresswell Pete, Slightly off topic reply but if you want fast start up for Office 2007 then try OpenOffice. Its free, can open and edit any MS Office doc and is very fast to open. regards, Beemer |
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Raid Array: Faster Startup Times?
Per Beemer:
Slightly off topic reply but if you want fast start up for Office 2007 then try OpenOffice. Its free, can open and edit any MS Office doc and is very fast to open. Unfortunately, I make my living developing apps for the Dark Side.... -) -- PeteCresswell |
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Raid Array: Faster Startup Times?
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message ... Per Beemer: Slightly off topic reply but if you want fast start up for Office 2007 then try OpenOffice. Its free, can open and edit any MS Office doc and is very fast to open. Unfortunately, I make my living developing apps for the Dark Side.... -) -- PeteCresswell Pete, You might want to consider using 4GB (3.4GB 32 bit windows) memory and no page file or using a usb flash memory stick for the pagefile. regards, Beemer |
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Raid Array: Faster Startup Times?
Beemer wrote:
"(PeteCresswell)" wrote in message ... Per Beemer: Slightly off topic reply but if you want fast start up for Office 2007 then try OpenOffice. Its free, can open and edit any MS Office doc and is very fast to open. Unfortunately, I make my living developing apps for the Dark Side.... -) -- PeteCresswell Pete, You might want to consider using 4GB (3.4GB 32 bit windows) memory and no page file or using a usb flash memory stick for the pagefile. regards, Beemer Yes! I agree with Open Office, HOWEVER using a fast memory stick - Readyboost DOES make apps that you use often, open faster. I give a tick to MS for that feature. cheers Gorby |
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