Mac Or PC

[diglloyd]

Originally Posted by Jerry Skrocki

I still see this as a flaw in your argument. Firewire 800 is limited to transferring 786 mb/sec. The internal SATA connection can transfer a possible 3 gigs/sec.

The boot drive should be one of the 4 internal drives. The scratch disk should be on a separate physical drive from the boot drive and Raid 0 gives best performance. Personally I use a separate dedicated hard drive for scratch disk with no raid configuration. This gives me performance which is more than adequate for my needs working with Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium.

The fastest tested boot drive is currently a striped solid state drive:

Fast Boot Drive Volumes for Mac Pros

I am the little Billy Goat gruff.

Check the credits for DiskTester, one of the programs used to test those solid state drives. You might find my name there.

[Noel_Carboni]

I like your "out of the box" thinking, Lloyd.

-Noel

[diglloyd]

Originally Posted by Noel_Carboni

I like your "out of the box" thinking, Lloyd.

Thanks Noel.

This new page gathers the pieces that were there: Boot Drive Dogma