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I've been struggling with a winxp install after an HW upgrade, and have just decided to blow it all away and start over with the filesystem.
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Degluxe (Opteron 185, 2GB ram)
On the NVidia SATARaid controller
150GB Raptor
C: ~30GB windows partition w/ 1GB pagefile, moved to outer edge. 4kb cluster size.
D: ~120GB programs/games. 8kb or 16kb cluster size.
160GB 7200.10 Seagate
E: Media/Program storage, 2GB pagefile on outer edge. Larger cluster size.
On the SI 3114R Sata controller
2x80GB 7200.8 Seagates in RAID 1
F: Backup of C:, and storage for critical/irreplaceable stuff (which is also backed up to another physical drive, as well as offsite).
Are there any further improvements I could make for speed? I'm not really sure if fooling with the cluster sizes will gain me any speed, as long as I stay at or above 4k. Also, 2 pagefiles is something I've never done before, and may be overkill. I know having the pagefile on another physical drive is optimal, but I'm wondering if the Raptor boot drive would still be faster than the Seagate. Any thoughts?
Motherboard: Asus A8N-SLI Degluxe (Opteron 185, 2GB ram)
On the NVidia SATARaid controller
150GB Raptor
C: ~30GB windows partition w/ 1GB pagefile, moved to outer edge. 4kb cluster size.
D: ~120GB programs/games. 8kb or 16kb cluster size.
160GB 7200.10 Seagate
E: Media/Program storage, 2GB pagefile on outer edge. Larger cluster size.
On the SI 3114R Sata controller
2x80GB 7200.8 Seagates in RAID 1
F: Backup of C:, and storage for critical/irreplaceable stuff (which is also backed up to another physical drive, as well as offsite).
Are there any further improvements I could make for speed? I'm not really sure if fooling with the cluster sizes will gain me any speed, as long as I stay at or above 4k. Also, 2 pagefiles is something I've never done before, and may be overkill. I know having the pagefile on another physical drive is optimal, but I'm wondering if the Raptor boot drive would still be faster than the Seagate. Any thoughts?