I am trying to optimize my computer for best performance. I have an Asus motherboard with an onboard Promise MBFastrak133 RAID controller. I purchased two new 80GB 8MB Cache 72RPM IDE drives which I have implemented as a 160GB RAID disk with striping for performance. This striped set is currently installed as my C: drive and has the OS (Windows XP Professional) installed. I also have an extra stand-alone 80GB drive that I have set up as the D: drive for storing data.My question is:What is the best place to put the OS, paging file, FS2004?The way I have it set up now is:160GB (2-80GB RAID Stripe): OS, Paging File80GB (1-80GB Stand-alone drive): FS2004Obviously the striped drives are the fastest, so should I just put all three on the RAID set or is it better to keep them separated even if the single drive doesn't have the same performance? Any help or insight to this would be greatly appreciated.

I doubt you are going to see much or any improvement in flight simulator performance due to RAID. Realize most of the flight simulation software is in RAM during use. The only software coming from the hardrive is updated scenery, including AI updates, as you fly and it is cached in RAM before it is needed.W. Sieffert

Me I had two Raptors in RAID didn