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Old 01-03-2008, 07:01 PM   #3 (permalink)
Peter Brayshaw
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Mass
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OS: XP x64


Re: What is the fastest set up.

On my old Pentium 4 my boot time was about 35-40 second flat. That was into the desktop with everything ready to go. Currently its a bit closer to a minute. Takes the comp about 30 seconds to get through the bios screen and raid config screen before windows starts up.

Anyhow this is confusing. Every place I check says something different. I'm not worried about the risk of raid 0. I have faith in WD drives, and I don't keep much of value on my main drive besides saved games and such. A crash would be very frustrating, but nothing major would be lost.

If I were to do raid0, what would be a good cluster size? Any thoughts?

I could use two drives, one for my OS and one for all my software. But I usually reformat about once a year for good measure. Once I reformat the OS drive I would break all the links my software has to the OS and needed recourses ... seems like it could be trouble... or am I totally misguided on that one?

-Pete
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