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How do your have your operating system drive(s) set up for speed?

  • Single 2MB Cache Parallel Drive

    Votes: 20 9.7%

  • Single 8MB Cache Parallel Drive

    Votes: 56 27.2%

  • Single 36GB Raptor

    Votes: 18 8.7%

  • Single 74GB Raptor

    Votes: 10 4.9%

  • RAID With Parallel Drives

    Votes: 29 14.1%

  • RAID With 36GB Raptors

    Votes: 30 14.6%

  • RAID With 74GB Raptors

    Votes: 11 5.3%

  • Two 2MB PATA On The Same IDE Channel

    Votes: 10 4.9%

  • Two 8MB PATA On The Same IDE Channel

    Votes: 13 6.3%

  • Two PATA Drives With Unlike Cache On The Same IDE Channel

    Votes: 9 4.4%
  • Total voters
    206
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Blasphemy; what is this IDE, PATA, SATA you speak of? ;)

My main OS drive is a single 36GB 15,000 rpm Seagate SCSI U320 drive on an Adaptec 29160L 64 bit card. Seek times are outstanding. Noise is barely noticable and heat isnt bad. When I first got the drive I didnt think it was working because its much quieter than my old 10k drives.

My old setup was a monster. It consisted of 4 to 8 18.2 GB 10,000 RPM Seagate SCSI drives and an IBM 4H 64 bit card. I tried almost every raid level, stripe size, and PCI latency possible. Performance was out of this world but so was heat and noise. Atto scores were up to 180 MB/sec :eek:
 
Because drives that are not Raptors are not true SATA ;)

That and I ran out of options.
 
Now I've got 2 60GB 5400rpm Maxtors in RAID 0. I am planning to get a 74GB Raptor after I get some money.
 
Currently (don't laugh) a bone crunching 5000RPM 4GB 2MB bufffer IDE Samsung (5 years old). :cry:

However, I am buying myself a present soon :santa2: :bday: - 2 Fujitsu MAS3735s (Ultra320, 15K, 8MB etc.), in RAID 0. :burn: :clap: :drool:​
 
Ive got my 36 gig Raptor hooked up as my primary with my OS and all of my programs. I figure that if i install all of my programs on the 36 gig, things will open mroe quickly, and then i would just place all of my music onto my 160 gig since playing music does not require much HD involvement.


Raven
 
I'm actually in a conundrum as to what I should make my next HD setup. Right now I have a 80 GB PATA 8 MB cache Western Digital as my OS HD, and a 30 GB maxtor as a backup.

I want to get a 160 GB Seagate 7200.7 (native SATA), but I don't know what to make it in the context of my system. I need more space, but I want to take advantage of the (slightly) faster SATA drive.

Should I keep the 80 GB as OS drive, and the 160 GB as the "media" harddrive (documents, mp3's, videos, downloads, etc)? Switch the two around? Keep just the OS on the 80, and use the 160 for everything else? Or should I just say screw it and get a 36 GB raptor, make that my OS drive, and keep the 80 as the media drive?
 
I have only one 120gig drive atm 8meg cache not even sata

My board has raid on it...

Raid 0 is stripe raid? or mirror raid..

If I run 2x sata drives on raid is it going to be noticeably faster?

Never used raid but looking to make pc better.
 
wicked-one said:
Maxtor Atlas 10k IV 36GB SCSI (Primary) & Maxtor 7200RPM 8MB (Storage). SCSI is primary because I do alot of multi-tasking. Will upgrade the Maxtor when I need to download more porn... That 10k is going to 15k as soon as I get the chance...
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I've got the same set up except my Maxtor Atlas is on a LSI Logic card that runs on the 32bit bus because I haven't upgraded my motherboard to a 64bit bus.
 
I have:

1x 36Gb Raptor
1x 160Gb 7K250 (SATA)

XP Pro, and pagefile striped accross both drives (but no RAID).
 
I went from a single 80gig 2MB 7200rpm drive to 2 36 gig raptors in raid 0 using my built in SATA RAID card that came with my ASUS board. :attn: WOOOOOOOOW! I love it! I have my OS and all of my programs and games installed on it and it makes a big difference. Everything loads faster and surfing the internet is faster. When I play a game the levels load faster and when I play Farcry The auto save between levels is so fast I do not even notice the game pause. I will never go back to a single 7200 rpm drive :clap: IF, I ever do upgrade to another drive, I will buy a 15000rpm SCSI drive and controller card. BTW, I have a hard time finding a place that sells SCSI drives. I have been to every computer store around my local area and I can not find anybody that has them in stock or sells them. :(
 
What it the point of raptors and the like?

There not gonna help in games at all. Just to show off benchmark scores????

If you want fast games, get a A64, and high end video card.
 
I to feel discrimiated against. I run my os and apps on my main rig off of 2 seagate 15k 36gb scsi drives in raid-0 on the adaptec 39320-r scsi card. I like it!!!

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Grov:
What it the point of raptors and the like?

There not gonna help in games at all. Just to show off benchmark scores????

If you want fast games, get a A64, and high end video card.
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Have you ever run a game with a nice highend cpu and video card adn a very slow system, the lag is terrible. I had a friend that had a p4 2.4 and a 9800 pro with a 20 gb 5400 rpm HD, the load times adn lag in games was terrible. I told him to get a SATA HD, he did, it made a world of difference.

sirjinx1974: also jsut look online for scsi drives, that is the best place to find them.
 
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Grov said:
What it the point of raptors and the like?

There not gonna help in games at all. Just to show off benchmark scores????

If you want fast games, get a A64, and high end video card.
Click to expand...

Games are not the only things that computers are used for...
 
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