Re: RAID in XP 64 by Tony
Tony
Thu Nov 03 08:21:54 CST 2005
No, this is not how it works, as far as I can understand. If you boot your
machine, you'll see BIOS counting the physical drives. This is before the
RAID driver is loaded. When the macine has booted and the RAID is active,
you will have access to one (1) HD of 320GB - that, you can partition into
two volumes of 160GB, or anything you might prefer, but only the RAID system
will have any knowledge of how the space is divided and of what goes where.
And this will not affect the speed in any way. The only way to partition
each drive separately is to not install the RAID. And that will NOT give you
the speed.
Greetings, Tony. . .
"gregh16" <gregh16@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D268C622-AB2A-4F48-ADAB-EE00193D211D@microsoft.com...
> My current system has 3 IDE hard drives with 6 partitions with a dual XP
> 32 &
> XP 64 boot (non RAID). One of my IDE hard drives is on it's last leg so I
> bit the bullet an purchased two 160GB SATA2 hard drives. I want to stripe
> the 2 hard drives for MAX game performance. Will I lose speed if I
> partition
> into two 160 GB hard drives since the head must move to the different
> partitions (I read that on another web site)?
> Please give me feedabck on what the ideal situation for speed would be. I
> want fast load times.... Don't care about backing up data (no mirror)....
> I would like to keep my dual boot XP32 & XP 64 but I will sacrifice one
> operating system if I must to keep the load times down.
>
> Thanks