Ben Rubinstein
Active member
Hi,
I'm thinking of making a simple fast setup only for page file/scratch disk use. I've seen 36GB Raptor drives on ebay for very little, thought of buying a couple, set them up as raid 0 (did I get that right? I mean the fast one) and go from there. I blame Jack for the idea, he's the one who keeps exolling the virtues of raid scratch disks!
Couple of questions: Firstly is it Raid 0 I'm thinking of? Secondly are the generic ebay type Raid SATA cards too awful to contemplate and will they work under 64 bit? Thirdly should I bother with Raptor or just go with a single Raptor and forget RAID? I'll be running on a dual core duo 2.2 with 8 gig of RAM under XP 64.
Many thanks and please excuse in advance my lack of understanding of anything more complicated than pidgin technological english!
I'm thinking of making a simple fast setup only for page file/scratch disk use. I've seen 36GB Raptor drives on ebay for very little, thought of buying a couple, set them up as raid 0 (did I get that right? I mean the fast one) and go from there. I blame Jack for the idea, he's the one who keeps exolling the virtues of raid scratch disks!
Couple of questions: Firstly is it Raid 0 I'm thinking of? Secondly are the generic ebay type Raid SATA cards too awful to contemplate and will they work under 64 bit? Thirdly should I bother with Raptor or just go with a single Raptor and forget RAID? I'll be running on a dual core duo 2.2 with 8 gig of RAM under XP 64.
Many thanks and please excuse in advance my lack of understanding of anything more complicated than pidgin technological english!