tradbourne
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- Nov 4, 2005
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We use Photoshop a lot and like the speed it works with RAID 0 when saving files over 1 GB. What I am looking for is a way to make the OS transparently treat a smaller (say twin 300 GB Raptor Raid 0 array) and a 2 tb or 3 tb green drive as nearline storage as one virtual unit, without the operator needing to physically move the files from the slow drive to the fast drive.
I want blinding speed and huge capacity, but still stay at a sweet spot for price.
For example, I start working on a project, and the files are on the slower 2tb drive, and my first access moves the files to the Raid 0 Raptor array, where I can work on them at the fastest speed, then after the project is finished, and the space on the Raid 0 array is needed for something else, to have the files silently moved, by the OS to the nearline storage disk without the operator needing to be aware of where the files really are stored.
We are using XP 64 and Win 7 Ult on our workstations, and have implemented hourly backups to our Linux unRaid 10 TB NAS (soon to be 20 TB), so we feel good about our backups (one copy of which are offsite)
I want blinding speed and huge capacity, but still stay at a sweet spot for price.
For example, I start working on a project, and the files are on the slower 2tb drive, and my first access moves the files to the Raid 0 Raptor array, where I can work on them at the fastest speed, then after the project is finished, and the space on the Raid 0 array is needed for something else, to have the files silently moved, by the OS to the nearline storage disk without the operator needing to be aware of where the files really are stored.
We are using XP 64 and Win 7 Ult on our workstations, and have implemented hourly backups to our Linux unRaid 10 TB NAS (soon to be 20 TB), so we feel good about our backups (one copy of which are offsite)