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The Jackal · 15-10-2006, 13:33

If you really want to risk it and get better performance than them noisy ugly raptors then why dont you raid-0 a couple of ide or SATA drives.

I recogn my RAID0 ide setup on one of my windoze machines will give a single raptor a run for it's money any day.

BTW I semi agree with Zing but heavy usage app typically only have their hard drive hit when they load up after which theres not much disk usage unless your doing DV capture or DVD ripping but then again you can specify where you want to dump your files ie > non OS drive.

Overall the way I feel is that the bottleneck is windoze it's just a sh**e OS you really need to house keep it by cleaning the registry pruning/defragging, checking the pagefile etc etc every 3 months or so. So much so the way I use my machines are 1 desktop machine for mail, development, PIM etc : The essentials. Heavy disk IO etc I have a dedicated machines for.

15-10-2006, 13:33	#9
The Jackal Inactive Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,604	Re: Harddrive Question If you really want to risk it and get better performance than them noisy ugly raptors then why dont you raid-0 a couple of ide or SATA drives. I recogn my RAID0 ide setup on one of my windoze machines will give a single raptor a run for it's money any day. BTW I semi agree with Zing but heavy usage app typically only have their hard drive hit when they load up after which theres not much disk usage unless your doing DV capture or DVD ripping but then again you can specify where you want to dump your files ie > non OS drive. Overall the way I feel is that the bottleneck is windoze it's just a sh**e OS you really need to house keep it by cleaning the registry pruning/defragging, checking the pagefile etc etc every 3 months or so. So much so the way I use my machines are 1 desktop machine for mail, development, PIM etc : The essentials. Heavy disk IO etc I have a dedicated machines for.