BigEd Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 First I would like to say Hello to everyone, as I'm a new guy here :nod: This forum is awesome, and there is soo much useful info here. I'm in the process of building the PC in my sig(waiting for my parts to come). I've been reading a lot of threads on cluster/stripe size and problems with XP SP2... My head is starting to spin :shake: L0L I'm planning on putting (2) raptors in a RAID 0. I'll create a 15GB 4/16 partition for windows and the rest will be configured with 8/32 for storage. The PCs primary use will be gaming. A guy I work with mentioned adding a separate hard drive just for the page file. Is that really necessary? He says that you don't want the page file on the same drive that you’re using. I've heard a lot of people talking about making a cluster bigger than 4 with SP2. I don't think I will have this problem if I make my windows partition with 4/16...then create the storage partition for 8/32. How does this setup sound? Do you see me running into any problems with this? :confused: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken Joe Posted December 20, 2005 Posted December 20, 2005 Lok at the stickie on the off topic forum about raid. There are tons of ways to set up the page file to prevent fragmentation it really would not speed things up to put tings on another drive if you were in raid 0 on a new system. I do a lot of HD defrag or manualy set the size of the page file in windows with the min and max the same. In games the real limit is the CPU that opens the compressed files not the HD. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigEd Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 Yeah I read most of the topics on it. Maybe I'll just leave it at 4/64 since this is my first time setting up a RAID array. My parts should be in today! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
supershanks Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 a couple of things 1) dont think you can select different stripe sizes on different partitions on the same raid. NVIDIA RAID Manual may help. 2) 15gb seems pretty small 4 your os install. luck Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alienwhere Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 I used 10 gbs for my os install, works fine for me Just remember to install all other none windows stuffs on other part or other Hds Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Crusader Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 a couple of things1) dont think you can select different stripe sizes on different partitions on the same raid. NVIDIA RAID Manual may help. 2) 15gb seems pretty small 4 your os install. luck 15 GB is not small for a Windows OS install at all, especially when you tune it a little by putting your swapfile to another drive, point all Temp and Log file environment vars to another drive, delete all Windows update directories in C:Windows after the updates have been installed etc. etc. Currently my fully updated XP/SP2 install is around 3.37 GB and I think it could be even a lot smaller if i used NLite or something. Just take into account that after the OS installation you have at least the amount of diskspace free equal to your RAM size when you want to use the Hibernate functionality. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest thespin Posted December 21, 2005 Posted December 21, 2005 Heck, I have Win SP2 and a bunch of programs including the entire Dreamweaver MX Suite and it takes only 9 GB. But I don't have any games so ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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