I just installed a raid (0) drive system on my Gateway FX machine, anyone have a idea how to alocate assets and operating software to get optmum proformance? should  carrara run on the main drive with the operating software (vista pro) or on the raid?

 Hi dagaffer,

As a rule, running  applications on a RAID is avoided because if one of the drives fails or is corrupted, everything on RAID is unrecoverable. 

So, run Carrara on your primary drive. However, if you want to target  your raid for the temporary documents files, you will see a modest increase in performance.

Mark

Putting the temp files on the AID might speed it up, but it depends on the physical maximum transfer of the drives involved and RAID usually slows down the drives a bit.  Although I agree about corruption and running Apps on the array.  It's generally not a good idea.  I use my 4 RAID Mirrored drives just to store important data.  I believe there are some good articles about RAID at Tom's Hardware.

Quote -  Hi dagaffer,

As a rule, running  applications on a RAID is avoided because if one of the drives fails or is corrupted, everything on RAID is unrecoverable. 

So, run Carrara on your primary drive. However, if you want to target  your raid for the temporary documents files, you will see a modest increase in performance.

Mark

Using a dedicated RAID controller (instead of RAID features build on the motherboard itself) will improve your overall performance but you should always consider the corruption problem. Personally I use 4 disks in a RAID 10 configuration on a dedicated RAID controller providing the best performance and recoverability. Other likely configurations would be RAID 5, 6, 50 or 60.
A RAID 0 from the motherboard increases the risk and only provides a modest performance improvement.
Please note that the boot disk has a maximum size of 2 TB this is always a consideration when constructing a RAID array for your OS.
A fast disk for the swap file (and some OS components) is often a better option but be aware that with a lot of memory you might not actually use the swap file at all.