>>My current "solution", aside from regular backups of important stuff to another physical HD (NAS), is that I endowed my system with a RAID mirrored setup for C:.
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>Mirror raid can spead up reading (alternating disks) to nearly double throughput, but depends on implementation - at least from the things I read <g>. Any measuremnts taken ?
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>curious

Sadly, no measurements. You are ready to go to much farther lengths to do measurements than I am < s >. My previous system, still used periodically and mainly as a backup, just isn't a viable comparator and I'm not about to unRAID/RAID the 2 HDs to find out. Too worried about implications.

But I can say that, perhaps a dozen time since starting it use about 16 months ago, the BIOS seemed to have lost it way to the boot drive. A simple (re)setting to the array does the trick, but it sure had me worried the first couple of times.

I've read similarly, but I can't vouch for it being fact. I went from a 750MHZ AMD with independent C: (EIDE) and D: (SCSI) to a 2200MHZ AMD64 with C: (RAID mirror SATA) and E: (SATA 10,000rpm) and needless to say was very pleased with the difference. The new also doubled the RAM. (a nice quiet case makes it a pleasure compared to the old one too)

I think it's safe to say it's no slower < s >

cheers



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>thomas