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I am 100% on this but a friend said otherwise.
If I Stripe my 2 200GB drives, when windows install appears I can create a 350GB parition and the rest as a FAT32 partition for back ups and ghost images. Will this imapact the speed of Striping when partitioning the stripe?
Thanks.
I currently use RAID 0 with 2 NTFS partitions. I have also used RAID 0 with just the one partition - as far as I am concerned I have noticed no difference having multiple partitions while using RAID 0.
Perhaps, when benchmarking there might be slight difference, but I have never noticed a difference in performance.
As a matter of interest, why are you making the additional partition FAT32? Why not NTFS?
No noticable difference until you try and access them both simultenously.
I was going to do this so that I can reboot and ghost the image to the FAT32 partition so if the windows install gets messy I can simple re-image.Quote:
Originally Posted by joeka
And as shaithis says the main issue will be accessing both partitions at the same time the heads will have to travel more. I would have only used the 2nd partition purely for backups so it would be access all the time, but I might put a 40GB ATA100 drive in as the backup drive as if one of the stripes does die I would lose the iamges anyway.
Fair point.Quote:
Originally Posted by pgudge
I agree - the best option for your circumstances would be a completely separate drive.
I don't even think Win XP SP2 offers Formatting in FAT32 any more....... it certainly wasn't in the blue screen installer from teh CD.
Thats because your selected partition size was over the fat32 limit. You need to use something like partition magic to bypass that.
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