Guys, here is a challenge for you...regarding hard disks

[kosandpol]

Come on man! Just answer my question. NAS is not for performance; but sharing.

NAS with a good cache gives good performance. If you want pure performance then add about 1 TB of memory and create a ram disk. Get the apps to work off the ram disk.

 

[OneUnited]

Volume (500GB)

C: drive (100GB)
Windows and Program Files

D: drive (200GB)
Games

E: drive (200GB)
Movies and Music....which are downloaded through the internet.

 

[nismok]

Here is My Data Management System in 250GB HDD

20GB - System
30GB - Software & Games
100GB - Music & Videos
100GB - Data Store

 

[Anusha]

NAS with a good cache gives good performance. If you want pure performance then add about 1 TB of memory and create a ram disk. Get the apps to work off the ram disk.

ROFLMAO. Something practical, please!

 

[Anusha]

Here is My Data Management System in 250GB HDD

20GB - System
30GB - Software & Games
100GB - Music & Videos
100GB - Data Store

How is it any good???? Only thing I can see with your setup is that you can format and reinstall Windows without losing your data

 

[kosandpol]

ROFLMAO. Something practical, please!

while 1TB of memory may be impractical at this time, running apps off a ram disk is not.
a system with 16GB of RAM can use a 8 GB ram disk to run the OS and most used applications.
Couple of high speed sata drives with integrated flash ram caches can be used to store the user data and system data on the individual disks and a 3rd disk to store the ram disk image.

 

[nismok]

How is it any good???? Only thing I can see with your setup is that you can format and reinstall Windows without losing your data

Ya... You got it.. When I feel PC is slow and Want to have fresh start I do format C: and D:

 

[Anusha]

while 1TB of memory may be impractical at this time, running apps off a ram disk is not.
a system with 16GB of RAM can use a 8 GB ram disk to run the OS and most used applications.
Couple of high speed sata drives with integrated flash ram caches can be used to store the user data and system data on the individual disks and a 3rd disk to store the ram disk image.

RAM drives are not practical in a country like SL, where power failures are frequent.

Why can't you propose a normal hard disk setup?

 

[bhai4uanu]

to be honest,you are doing more than enough
i just don't think anyone here will be able to help you with this

 

[Anusha]

to be honest,you are doing more than enough
i just don't think anyone here will be able to help you with this

doing more than enough? what is that supposed to mean????

 

[bhai4uanu]

doing more than enough? what is that supposed to mean????

hard drive setup + data management solution

 

[GNS]

RAM drives are not practical in a country like SL, where power failures are frequent.

Why can't you propose a normal hard disk setup?

may be because you don't need configurations of Normal HDD setups

 

[zCexVe]

WTF?
Get a SCSI with 15000 RPM for the OS.Velociraptors or raptors RAIDed 1 for data.Security + speed + lower seek times.

 

[prasad_tk3]

widows xp run's perfect /faster on larger partitions

 

[GNS]

4 x 500GB Samsung F1 RAID 0+1

It will have 465 GB

25GB system
40GB for software setup+downloads
50 GB for multimedia stuff-pics+resources for editing+my documents
100 GB audio
250GB for video+TV+movies
this is how I do except for RAID 0+1

won't it be 1TB after mirrored?

 

[GNS]

That's like the worst setup a person could come up with! Duh!!!!

NOTE: I'M NOT ASKING YOU TO POST YOUR CRAPPY SETUP! COME UP WITH A SETUP FOR ME!!!!

Duh!

what's wrong with your current setup?

I believe it's a cool setup

 

[GNS]

Volume (500GB)

C: drive (100GB)
Windows and Program Files

D: drive (200GB)
Games

E: drive (200GB)
Movies and Music....which are downloaded through the internet.

 

[Anusha]

won't it be 1TB after mirrored?

yes it will be

 

[kosandpol]

RAM drives are not practical in a country like SL, where power failures are frequent.

Why can't you propose a normal hard disk setup?

Quite simply because you are not satisfied with mere hard disk setups.
Besides using ram drives or hard drives has no significance with power failures.
On a power failure, if the modified data has not been written back to the hard disk, ram drive or not, the data is lost.
A ram drive speeds up execution so that is the ideal for performance.

 

[sherlock]

no idea