Currently I am running a System with several pysical drives, bear with me here but you need to understand what I have done and where I would like to go.
I am running an Abit MB IP35-Pro I tested the on-board raid controller, the performance results could not beat a Single Raptor drive, I tried raid 1,5 and 10, zero did boost performance but I do not want to risk my data on raid zero.
I do a lot of Photoshop work, and use other disk instense editing applications that rail the hard drives. Currently I have a 150gig raptor as my boot and program drive OS swap is there as well, a 74gig raptor as my Photoshop scratch drive and bridge thumbnail cache, and (3) 750gig 7200 rpm SATA drives for photo storage. I have played with moving swap files around etc and the above does the best thus far.
Going forward I would like to do a RAID 10 setup to hold my photos and obtain better disk throughput. When I run Adobe Bridge and it generates thumbnails it kills the drive. If I go SATA I need a 4 port card that uses PCI Express not PCI-X. My other option is using (8) 36gig 10,000 rpm SCSI SCA2 drives I have sitting here housed in an external case with a SCSI raid controller.
Either way can someone suggest a good performing SATA 4 port card (all drives internal to my case) or a SCSI external case and SCSI Raid card (PCI or PCI-E) that has an external port to plug into the external case. Although with SCSI in a raid 10 144gigs is not enough to hold all my photos but is plenty of space to house the photos I need to work on currently, then I can move them off to the SATAs at somepoint. Raid card must function with Vista 64bit.
Thanks if you need more info just ask.
I am running an Abit MB IP35-Pro I tested the on-board raid controller, the performance results could not beat a Single Raptor drive, I tried raid 1,5 and 10, zero did boost performance but I do not want to risk my data on raid zero.
I do a lot of Photoshop work, and use other disk instense editing applications that rail the hard drives. Currently I have a 150gig raptor as my boot and program drive OS swap is there as well, a 74gig raptor as my Photoshop scratch drive and bridge thumbnail cache, and (3) 750gig 7200 rpm SATA drives for photo storage. I have played with moving swap files around etc and the above does the best thus far.
Going forward I would like to do a RAID 10 setup to hold my photos and obtain better disk throughput. When I run Adobe Bridge and it generates thumbnails it kills the drive. If I go SATA I need a 4 port card that uses PCI Express not PCI-X. My other option is using (8) 36gig 10,000 rpm SCSI SCA2 drives I have sitting here housed in an external case with a SCSI raid controller.
Either way can someone suggest a good performing SATA 4 port card (all drives internal to my case) or a SCSI external case and SCSI Raid card (PCI or PCI-E) that has an external port to plug into the external case. Although with SCSI in a raid 10 144gigs is not enough to hold all my photos but is plenty of space to house the photos I need to work on currently, then I can move them off to the SATAs at somepoint. Raid card must function with Vista 64bit.
Thanks if you need more info just ask.
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