At 05:03 AM 2/11/2007, you wrote: >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.
Stay away from RAID 0 for file storage. I lost 8 months of data (which I didn't back-up) due to a drive that physically destroyed itself. I recommend building your workstation for speed, & looking into Network Attached Storage (NAS) for file storage/back-up. (I'm currently considering a Netgear ReadyNAS configured for RAID 5.) If you went that route, option 1 (or ideally 2), would be the way to go IMHO. Also, check the windows web site. There is a white paper there about configuring your system for digital imaging. Cheers, Dave -- 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.
