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But Hack did mention SQL...Quote:
Originally Posted by -TPM-
And SQL - at least in a production environment - likes to have the DB on one drive and the LOG file on another drive - it's a SQL specific kind of scenario...
But I don't think that a development laptop needs that kind of dual drive setup - but wanted to mention it...
I didn't say you HAVE to have RAID for a second drive, I said to see a decent performance increase. You also wouldn't be using ANY extra space if you where only using RAID 0 (technically not RAID but anyway..). I also don't belive 1 7200RPM drive will use anywhere near the same as 2 5200RPM's. Your right though Hack does need to decide for himself, I'm just trying to help him make an informed dissision :)Quote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
You can also move the pagefile.sys to your secondary drive to relieve the stress off of the primary drive's head.
Those wouldn't read at the same time though, the OS would read at bootup for the most part, and the programs after login.Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
Not necessarly. If your running programs like VS or SQL Server, photoshop etc. Actually photoshop uses scratch disks that you can place on different drives to help imporve performance.
Is that for performance reasons though?Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
The scratch file would be used once the application has finished loading...Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
And I didn't say you said you did! :)
Anyway, Good luck on your decision Hack. Whatever you do, don't listen to the sales reps. Entrust VBF for all of your life decisions; we know what's best for you. :thumb:
Yes - the SQL database engine has many threads running at the same time - initially data is written to the log file (write-ahead-logging) and other processes within the engine put it into the database during "low" moments (or whatever scheduled moments appear proper).Quote:
Originally Posted by -TPM-
Sorry it seemed implied.. :blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
I totally agree with the rest too :)
Yes, same here as they only want to sell you what they need to sell you and not what you need/want.
91 posts - and only a handful by Hack [edit-well 2 handfuls!]...
We are like little kids in a candy shop - mention a new toy and off we go :D
Thank you for pointing that out. I would like to mention 3 things.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
For the umptheenth time, I'm not a hardware guy. RAID to me is something that comes in a spray can and is used to kill bugs. Please refer to Post #70.
(LOL - I'll bet if I asked you guys what time it was, I would get the history of clocks and sundry other timepieces for an answer. :lol: )
Where's the other two things? ;)
RAID is pretty simple really... It's just a hard drive configuration.
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/...214332,00.html
That'll explain what each configuration does (I actually just bookmarked it, I didn't know what RAID was past 3).
RobDog taught me what Raid-1 was this week - he had that fail...
We've got RAID-5 on our server - not sure what it does (6 drives doing xor-bit redundancy?)...
RAID-1 now makes a lot of sense to me - it's a mirror of your harddrive - so if it fails, you can simply keep running on the mirror. I've lost harddrives on my workstations in that past year or so - and wish I had RAID-1 (or norton clones - whatever)...
But on a laptop - can you really have two drives running RAID-1? Is that common?
Hardware - raid - and 70...Quote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
Hack is a man of few words - respect them ;)
Oh wow... I thought you were kidding, but there really was 3.
Enviroment.NewLine Hack, you'll love it :)
:lol: :lol: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by sevenhalo
Somehow I saw all his "puncuation marks" between the lines!
I only saw 2 things mentioned. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hack
Not hardware guy and RAID.
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I don't see why not, it'd be a compleate waste though... I could see maybe 1+0, then at least there maybe some speed increase. Although I pretty sure there's not hardware RAID for laptop's so you'd need to do software RAID (Software controls the splitting/mirroring of data) which would probably offset any IO (input/Output) gain.Quote:
Originally Posted by szlamany
You forgot the "see post 70."Quote:
Originally Posted by RobDog888
It's a point in itself :)
But if thats a point then it has in itself about 8 points. so that makes 10 points and not 3 :D
Hack we need you to let us know what the third point was. :D
Sorry for the off topic posts. We Bad. :(
10 > 3, pick the points you want :)
Clearly this thread run its course so I think I will just toddle off and do some research on my own.
Thanks everyone. :)