Hey BB....!

Do you have any idea how well your library work  will behave on a RAIDed system? I'm starting to assemble the rack (and upgrade the current renderboxes; one is formatting its RAID 0 for an XP64 install....can't wait to see how fast -that- one boots to desktop...).  Anywho, I have the new graphics box built and a simple Vista 64 Ultimate install on one HDD. But with nothing installed, I'm considering adding another drive and striping my boot drive (as there will be no apps on C:, or stored data, for that matter, I'm not too worried about fault tolerance. I -might- 0+1 it, just because small drives are cheap-cheap, right now)....but I have heard from somewhat clueful folks that some graphics apps do not play nicely with some forms of RAID......only they had no specifics, and so far I haven't  found anything, either.

I seriously doubt that P8 itself will be on RAID, unless its mirroring for safety's sake. But if there are any potential gotcha's to be wary of in that regard........

Damn, in the time it took to type this the Athlon64 X2-3000 unit for the renderfarm formatted the last 54% of the RAID and is at 99% load. I couldn't even read the file names as they flashed by on the bottom bar.....