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Re: What is the fastest set up.
Thanks for all the helpful info thus far... You guys are helping me get a good understanding of this. I tend to ask lots of simple questions about projects like this. I find people with experience and knowledge are some of the best recourses.
Tumbleweed36. I understand your envy. Something I have noticed is that now matter how sweet my rig is.. the next guy always gets that one bit of hardware I just couldn't afford. I tend to build my rigs on the cheap... spending the money on key components, and upgrading over several years... constantly working towards a master design.
Anyhow
I seem to have confused cluster size and stripe size... I did not realize they were different. Linderman, in that link you gave me it mentions that.
As I understand it now stripe size is what you set when you set up the array. I currently use 128k but might go to 64, since I don't have many files over 300MB, and currently I don't do much music/video editing. I'm guesing stripe size determines how the array splits each file up between drives?
As for the cluster size I am not sure what this means, or how to change it. That link mentions that it can be changed through windows but that is it. Again any info would be greatly appreciated.
My basic goal is to squeeze as much speed out of my machine as possible. Mostly for kicks and for pride in building a tightly tuned and quick responding machine. Kinda like a hot rod but more nerdy! :)
Again thank you for all the help so far....
-Pete
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