BF2S Forums Quick RAID question.

So you want:
C: Windows (One random non raid disk)
D: Programmes (Two RAID 0 drives)?

If so i cant see that working. Programmes should be installed to %programfiles% which is on the drive windows is installed on, plus what about the registry? Assuming you manage to install a programme on D, the registry will be on C and will need to be accessed, causing a bottleneck.

My advice would be to get some working drivers and put it all on the RAID0.

=Karma-Kills= wrote:

So you want:
C: Windows (One random non raid disk)
D: Programmes (Two RAID 0 drives)?

If so i cant see that working. Programmes should be installed to %programfiles% which is on the drive windows is installed on, plus what about the registry? Assuming you manage to install a programme on D, the registry will be on C and will need to be accessed, causing a bottleneck.

My advice would be to get some working drivers and put it all on the RAID0.

Erh, I've been installing programs on different drives than the OS for ages now, never had a single problem.

I've heard that if I, aquire a vista installation that doesn't include SP1, I should be able to install it on RAID, I'll try that.

steelie34 wrote:

what kind of mobo do you have?  as long as you find the drivers for the raid array, you can load them before the windows install by pressing f6.  you can then install windows to the raid array.

Read the OP ffs, I said that there was a known problem installing vista installations that include SP1, I loaded the drivers, but it still didn't see my RAID array.

Going to get a hold of vista without SP1 and see if it works.

Sydney wrote:

steelie34 wrote:

what kind of mobo do you have?  as long as you find the drivers for the raid array, you can load them before the windows install by pressing f6.  you can then install windows to the raid array.

Read the OP ffs, I said that there was a known problem installing vista installations that include SP1, I loaded the drivers, but it still didn't see my RAID array.

Going to get a hold of vista without SP1 and see if it works.

ok well why dont you install vista pre-sp1 and install the service pack later?  unless you have some really obscure mobo, i doubt you can't find a way to do this.  BUT anyway......

Sydney wrote:

Vista fucked me over badly (see my other thread), so I'm installing XP x64 again, in dual boot with Ubuntu. But since ubuntu (well, GRUB)  doesn't want to see my RAID array I'm going to install my Windows on a non-RAID drive.

Now the question is, if I move pagefile to RAID array, will I have any performance loss at all, in programs kept on the RAID drive, compared to if I had both OS and the programs on the RAID?

you can actually mount a drive as a folder on your system.  after you format the raid array, don't assign a drive letter to it.  you can mount the newly formatted volume with a folder on your c: drive, and you would most likely want to mount the "program files (x86)" folder to your array.  this way, windows will see it as "c:\program files(x86)", but in reality, the program files folder will be on the separate raid volume.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889

im sure this works for Vista, but i haven't found the article yet.

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-06-09 17:28:58)