> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Mike
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 10:30 PM
> To: 1
> Subject: [OM] Re: OT Notes on Upgrading - II - Disks - and a question
>
>
> As far as Raid 1 goes you should get a performance boost and some
> protection from mechanical failure but for security purpose consider
> the
> two drives as only one and still do a remote backup. Any corruption of
> one disk is immediately copied to the other... Another option for
> performance is to buy one 10,000rpm Raptor. You loose the mechanical
> redundancy but gain one SATA port.
>
> So now someone tell me if it's best to use the Raptor as the boot drive
> w/ programs or use it for the scratch disk and swap disk.
>
> mike
I would believe a scratch and swap disk IF you were short on memory. If you
have 2GB or more, you won't swap or scratch much, so I'd use it for data.
Boot is 'one time only'.
The Raptors are impressive, but the cost per byte is pretty high for me.
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