Best setup for hard drives in XP?

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Hi,

I am going to setup a system with XP. It is going to have a 36 gig Raptor
10K drive and two IDE ATA 30 gig 7200K drives on Raid 0. Which drive would
it be best to put the OS on and which one the swap disk. The main use of
this system is for 3D visualizations so should I put my 3D software on the
OS drive or the swap drive hard drive? I need maximum performance out of
this systems drives, not to mention all the other components! Looks like I
am going to go with the MSI 875P NEO-FIS2R motherboard as it seems to be one
of the best 865 or 875 boards out there.

Thanks,

RC

 

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"R. Chamberlain" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am going to setup a system with XP. It is going to have a 36 gig Raptor
> 10K drive and two IDE ATA 30 gig 7200K drives on Raid 0. Which drive would
> it be best to put the OS on and which one the swap disk. The main use of
> this system is for 3D visualizations so should I put my 3D software on the
> OS drive or the swap drive hard drive? I need maximum performance out of
> this systems drives, not to mention all the other components! Looks like I
> am going to go with the MSI 875P NEO-FIS2R motherboard as it seems to be one
> of the best 865 or 875 boards out there.
>
> Thanks,
>
> RC

If you want maximum performance, get 4GB Ram.