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Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: 38ruk on September 01, 2005, 09:23:25 PM

Ive aquired a second hard drive that is almost identical to the one i am running , WD 80gig 7200 rpm  . Do you guys think it would be of any benefit to just put AH2 on it and nothing else . Could it cause any issues by not being on the drive with the OS ?  I was also wondering if putting the swap file on the second drive really gains any performance aswell .  Opinions welcome 38

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: kevykev56 on September 01, 2005, 09:37:45 PM

Maybe Try one of These (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1078952&Sku=C368-1012&SRCCODE=WEBINK&CMP=OTC-INKTOMI)


HD 1 would be for surfing/work/whatever

HD2 would be just for AH.

They are easy to swap out and completely independant. You can also put AH on your original HD and if anything happens to HD2 you can quickly be back in the game.


I can see benefits to using 2 drives this way.

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: Waffle on September 03, 2005, 05:12:33 PM

I had several hard drives running in a system before,

C drive for OS and Microsoft stuff, as well as anti-virus, ect...misc BS

then a drive for games/Programs, then one I had for data.

then an external firewire for backup.

No problems - least none that I noticed...lol

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: DAVENRINO on September 03, 2005, 06:11:24 PM

I run AH on a separate partition with no problems. One advantage is that I can just format the partition when a new release comes out and do a fresh AH install. It also doesn't suffer much from fragmentation.

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: 38ruk on September 03, 2005, 11:46:26 PM

thx for the reply's , i ended up raiding the 2 in a raid 0. 38

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: Ted Strykker on September 04, 2005, 01:46:07 AM

I have AH running seperatly on a 120 Gig SEAgate 10,000 Rpm harddrive and i get awesome performance.

All though i,m about too put it else where for the new Battlefield 2 game kicks way more arse than AH......by Far

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: Sundowner on September 06, 2005, 05:12:53 AM

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I was also wondering if putting the swap file on the second drive really gains any performance aswell .

I use this tweek to force my "Page File" to my system RAM (No Swap file on disk at all) As far as I know this has to be the fastest "Page File" access you can have.
 Be aware, W98 and WME use "Swap File" and W2K and WXP use "Page File".
I recommend this tweek for 1Gb Sys RAM minimum.

Regards
Sun


This works for XP and 2000--
User-mode and kernel-mode drivers and kernel-mode system code is usually written to be either pageable or non-pageable. In cases where drivers or system code is pageable, you can use the following registry entry to keep this pageable code in RAM, but this is only advisable on systems with extremely large amounts of RAM.
If your system has enough physical memory performance will increase if the operating system does not page it self to disk. The best way to make sure is to load all of your applications and use the task manager(press Control-Alt-Delete) and click the performance tab. Your physical RAM should be greater then the Peak Commit Charge by at least 64MB.

To manually edit the registry. Modify HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Con
trol\Session Manager\Memory Management and set the following value DisablePagingExecutive=1.
1=enable---Disables page file to disk and uses ram only
0=disable---Enables page file to disk

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: Siaf__csf on September 06, 2005, 07:04:07 AM

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the new Battlefield 2 game kicks way more arse than AH......by Far

BF2 is quake. AH is AH.

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a 120 Gig SEAgate 10,000 Rpm harddrive

Very rare to run a scsi at home.

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: Overlag on September 10, 2005, 06:20:05 PM

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Originally posted by 38ruk
thx for the reply's , i ended up raiding the 2 in a raid 0. 38

one fault and you've lost EVERYTHING.... simply not worth the small increase..... :mad:



*crys* at his lost 80gig of p0rnz and warez and save games

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: 38ruk on September 11, 2005, 12:51:16 AM

thats true, no fault tolerence at all , but i dont have anything i cant live without on this machine .  all that crap goes on the wifes , i noticed a desent bump in read speed , and a good sized increase in writes. Im glad i benched the single drive before i raided it . 38

Title: 2ND Hard drive just for AH
Post by: Overlag on September 11, 2005, 05:52:36 AM

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Originally posted by 38ruk
thats true, no fault tolerence at all , but i dont have anything i cant live without on this machine .  all that crap goes on the wifes , i noticed a desent bump in read speed , and a good sized increase in writes. Im glad i benched the single drive before i raided it . 38

true i guess, because i now get bored waiting for AHII/FS2004 loading.......:o