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Hi,
finally I bought a new computer, a quadcore i7 920 with two hard disks (one for the OS and one for the the data of my works).

But to increase performance in wich disk have I install the software (rhino and Maxwell)?
Is it the same?

thanx

fabrizio

Your not going to notice that great a performance plus on either disk ... Keep it simple and use C: ...

you could keep all my programs on one disc and the data on the other.
I do it this way. It might be a little faster... but I don't think there will be any difference if you separate rhino and maxwell. since rhino doesn't write or read from the disc once its started.

to increase your performance you 've to build a raid array with the two disks.

with 2 disks You can do
RAID0:
Striping of the data (system + data) to both disks >>> faster read + write - unsave _ you've to backup you data!

RAID1:
Mirroring one disk to the other >>> speedup only for reading + Save (but you need a third hdd to replace one if it fails to be save that you get one of the same build)

Intel Matrix RAID:
Combination of RAID0 for one partition and RAID1 for the other. I use RAID0 for the sys and a speed partition and RAID1 for the data. works good for me. But the other parts remain the same (backup + another disk)

i would combine the system and the programs on one partition. no data on this you can use acronis drive image or similar to get an image of the complete clean installation and copy it back within minutes when your system is dead or slow.

thanx to everybody

numerobis wrote: Intel Matrix RAID:
Combination of RAID0 for one partition and RAID1 for the other. I use RAID0 for the sys and a speed partition and RAID1 for the data. works good for me. But the other parts remain the same (backup + another disk)

would you rather put the system&program partition on RAID0 or the data files?
eg. you only have to open photoshop once, but open/write several files with a few hundred gigs.