If you want to speed up your system you could mount your extra HD as a software RAID drive.
RAID0 will stripe data between two hard drives, so some blocks are read from one drive, and some from the other effectively halving the seek time. Software RAID is real easy to set up using diskdrake. You just need two hard drives (on different IDE controllers) The drives do not have to be the same size or same make (unlike hardware RAID on Wintel MBs) You just identify partitions on each drive as RAID partitions in diskdrake and then mount them as a single partition. The partitions do not even need to be the same size. Other partitions on the drives may be configured as non RAID The downside of software RAID is If your system is already installed it is complicated moving partitions about to create the RAID partitions. The seek time will be limited by the seek time of the slowest drive. So if your 10GB drive is an old piece of rubbish it is counterproductive. If either drive has a data corruption it will trash the data on the other as well (unless you use RAID3? (mirror+stripe) which uses twice the disc space) Just an idea derek On Monday 14 Oct 2002 11:23 pm, Travis Crook wrote: > Hi all, > I have an extra 10GB hard drive and wondered what > would be the best use for it. Would it make file access faster > if it was used as a file drive (i.e. I install games, mp3s, etc. on > it instead of the system drive)? What else could I do with it? > > Thanks > > Travis Crook > Visions Beyond
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