Best RAID setup to suit windows?

[Bubo]

Is it better to set a raid with a 4K stripe size and an 8k cluster format size, or an 8K stripe size and a 4K cluster size, or a 4k stripe and cluster size, for maximum Windows performance?

Also, I intend to set aside a partition dedicated to a 20 gig swap file, what would be the optimum stripe size to set for that parition?

[burtie]

What, just stick window on it ffs. What do you need to **** about like for? just run it.

[blueball]

Having a swap file on a separate partition on a physical disk is pointless. It just means that the read write heads have further to travel - don't waste your 20Gig on that

[Bubo]

Having a swap file on a separate partition on a physical disk is pointless. It just means that the read write heads have further to travel - don't waste your 20Gig on that

What about an unfraggable permanent fixed size swapfile?

[blueball]

What about an unfraggable permanent fixed size swapfile?

Yeah, if it is on the main partition or, even better, on a separate physical disk but 20 Gig seems an awful lot. Recommended figures are usually 1.5 to 3 times the amount of physical RAM you have installed - on a 4Gb RAM system a swapfile of 8Gb is more than enough.