Anyone have experience with DFI Lanparty UT nf3 250gb and multiple SATA drives. I will have the following setup:
x1 160gb Seagate 7200.7 SATA (C: 60gb for OS/APPS, D: 50gb for Games, E: 50gb for MP3, pictures, home data, save game backups, etc)
x2 160gb Seagate 7200.7 SATA (RAID 0) for video capture, editing, burning DVD's from, etc.
Several questions:
1) How do my partions look for drive 1? 60gb for OS/APPS should be good right? 50gb for games prob. a little small? What about Pagefile (system will have 1-2GB)? Don't know much about Pagefiles.
2) What recommendations for partition for RAID 0 array. Mainly used for capture and editing, should I just set up 2 80gb partitions? Is that way too big for basically a scratch disk? Want all 3 drives to be same though (see below)
3) MAIN QUESTION: DFI Lanparty supports up to 4 SATA drives, 2 off the NForce3 chip, and 2 additional off the Marvell SATA PHY. How should I connect these SATA drives? To which controller? Should RAID 0 array be on the NF3 chip controllers or the Marvell? Will there be any performace issues I should think about? Should drive containing OS be on NF3 chip controller instead?
All 3 drives are identical. Possible I could add a fourth some day for RAID 0+1 or RAID 5 (new MB required I know)
HELP!
...just ignore me, I'm still just a stranger!
x1 160gb Seagate 7200.7 SATA (C: 60gb for OS/APPS, D: 50gb for Games, E: 50gb for MP3, pictures, home data, save game backups, etc)
x2 160gb Seagate 7200.7 SATA (RAID 0) for video capture, editing, burning DVD's from, etc.
Several questions:
1) How do my partions look for drive 1? 60gb for OS/APPS should be good right? 50gb for games prob. a little small? What about Pagefile (system will have 1-2GB)? Don't know much about Pagefiles.
2) What recommendations for partition for RAID 0 array. Mainly used for capture and editing, should I just set up 2 80gb partitions? Is that way too big for basically a scratch disk? Want all 3 drives to be same though (see below)
3) MAIN QUESTION: DFI Lanparty supports up to 4 SATA drives, 2 off the NForce3 chip, and 2 additional off the Marvell SATA PHY. How should I connect these SATA drives? To which controller? Should RAID 0 array be on the NF3 chip controllers or the Marvell? Will there be any performace issues I should think about? Should drive containing OS be on NF3 chip controller instead?
All 3 drives are identical. Possible I could add a fourth some day for RAID 0+1 or RAID 5 (new MB required I know)
HELP!
...just ignore me, I'm still just a stranger!