Taking delivery of my new computer on Monday, for storage it has 2 x 500gb drives set up for raid0 plus a 1tb slave drive. I am thinking of keeping windows and fsx on the primary (raid0) drive and installing my other software (photoshop, office etc) on the slave drive, can anyone see any possible issues with this?

Taking delivery of my new computer on Monday, for storage it has 2 x 500gb drives set up for raid0 plus a 1tb slave drive. I am thinking of keeping windows and fsx on the primary (raid0) drive and installing my other software (photoshop, office etc) on the slave drive, can anyone see any possible issues with this?

There are no problems of using the raid-0 for OS and the slave single drive for FSX. My feelingis that is the best solution. This assumes that the slave disk and raid disks are the same speed.Raid-0 is used for performance where the files are larger than the underlying raid block size. Forlarger files you get 2 disks to read and write the data. For small files you see no improvementfor read/write, rather you see a slight performance drop because the overhead of the raid-0controller. Ie if the files are smaller than the underlying block size for the raid-0 then each fileis only written in 1 block - so is only written on one disk. FSX contains a very large number ofsmall files rather than a few large files.my 2p worth.

Unless your using a PCIe Raid card, dont waste your time with a raid 0 setup. Buy an 40-80gb SSD for your OS and put all the other programs on one of the 500gb drives. Use one 500gb drive for FSX and 1tb drive as your backup.

Unless your using a PCIe Raid card, dont waste your time with a raid 0 setup. Buy an 40-80gb SSD for your OS and put all the other programs on one of the 500gb drives. Use one 500gb drive for FSX and 1tb drive as your backup.

Better still buy a 240GB SSD and put both your system and FSX parititions on it. Its fast and you can forget the word "Defrag" forever. :(