----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" Subject: OT- PC, Photoshop, and RAID Decisions, Decisions
> I'm within hours from making a decision regarding a new desktop. > > I'm currently using PS2. The desktop comes with Vista Home Premium, > though > it's possible I'll go to XP Pro depending on how performance seems. I'm > on > a laptop at present with Vista Business. No major complaints after > turning > off eye candy, reminders, automatic scheduled processes, and telling it to > look like classic windows. > > I'll likely get 1TB of storage. But there are options. > > 1. 2 X 500 GB non-RAID SATA drives. > 2. 2 X 500 GB configured as RAID 0. > 3. 2 X 500 GB configured as RAID 1. > > Let's forget option 3 since I can backup to any external drive I want. > > To the meat of my question... Ideally the Windows virtual swap file and > Photoshop scratch area are not supposed to be on the same physical disk. > With option 2 though, Windows and CS2 will see 1 big drive. Who can tell > which physical drive is being utilized for what? It seems counter to what > I > think would be the best approach (which is to have an additional RAID 0 > array for PS Scratch, which I won't). > > While a little performance may be lost, might it be better to go with a > non-RAID configuration and be sure that Windows swap and Photoshop scratch > are on two independent physical devices? Any one have experience with this > exactly. > > Also, I'm a little afraid of RAID 0 and recoverability. Thanks. With 2 drives, I'd stear clear of RAID. With 2 drives, you can to either Raid 0 (fast, but half the reliability of a single drive) or RAID 1 (twice the reliability of a single drive, but half the capacity). Put your PS swap onto the second drive. I ended up with 5 drives, 4 of which are configured as two seperate RAIDs (0+1). William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
