Hi, I live in australia and I assume you live in the US so there is a big time difference :wink:
I will follow your advise and stay away from dynamic disk as I really don't need it and will lower the size of the page files.
I think I'm nearly out of questions when it comes to organizing partition and disks. (might have some questions relating setting up raid0 though :wink: )
My last partition related question will be: If I have vista on one partition and xp on the otherone is there a way that they access the same applications (ie. encarta, firewall, antivirus.......) or do I have to install every application twice (as they need registry entries...)?
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Now some questions regarding setting up raid0.
I will be owner of a Asus P5W DH Deluxe which supports "plug and play raid0" here is the description:
"No driver, no configuration, just plug and play RAID to backup your data instantaneously. Exclusive to ASUS EZ-Backup™, users can utilize SATA2 technology to arrange RAID1 (default) or RAID0 system without BIOS or any other setup. EZ-Backup™ is ideal for anyone who wishes to secure the data on the hard-drive but doesn't want the hassle of complicated software configuration. EZ-Backup™ looks after your data for you. "
and this is the link to the board
http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=11&l3=248&mo...
I can't remember where but I read in some forum that this plug and play raid0 is slower than if you setup up hardware raid0 yourself. Not sure why but I can remember something with using same port/controler or bridge something like that.
I heard it's quicker to connect the raid0 to the 4723 controller (whatever that means).
Also I found this post if it helps:
"Download and install HD Tach. Test the burst speed of your HDDs while on EZ
Backup Raid controller. It sux! You get about half the bandwidth of the
Jmicron mounted disks. I had a RAID-1 setup on the Silicon Image controller
and my SATA-II Seagate drives were showing a burst of 120MB. I moved them
to the Jmicron controller (not in RAID but booting to the first "boot"
socket) and the burst speed then measured at 245MB I then used a floppy to
setup the OS in a true RAID-1 on the Jmicron and remeasured using HD TACH to
rule out any raid vs non-raid measurement issues and it is indead twice as
fast on the Jmicron controller. Posts concerning this in the ASUS forum got
a reply that stated the Silicon Image system uses a single chip solution
which splits the bandwidth between the two drives. I don't know if this is
true or not but I have measured the speed on both controllers and I am very
dissapointed that half my drive capability is kneecapped, by design
possibly."
Any idea why it's suppose to be slower? is it really slower? what is the best way to setup hardware raid0 on this motherboard?
Thanks for past and future replies