Will I see a big difference if I put my OS (WinXP) on ATA 100 instead of ATA 66?

FuTz wrote on 4/25/2003, 3:34 PM
Title says it all... I got the opportunity of using ATA 100 with the RAID option on my mobo, ATA 66 if I keep a "standard" setting. But is it really worth it? I just take into consideration that I'll probalby have some tweakings to make it work but if it's not ***that*** an obvious difference, I'll keep it the way it is...
All my drives are 7200 RPM: 30Go for OS and files, 80Go for programs and files, 4x80Go on Promise card for storing video...
AMD Athlon 1000
768 RAM
Thanks in advance!

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Jsnkc wrote on 4/25/2003, 4:09 PM
You will notice a slight diffrence, but not a BIG diffrence.
BillyBoy wrote on 4/25/2003, 5:05 PM
The only way to see a BIG change in rendering times is bump up the power of the CPU. Video redering is very CPU cycle intensive. So the faster the CPU can do the endless caculations, the shorter the rendering times. It won't really get fast until another two-three years when the next generation of CPU's come out.
FuTz wrote on 4/25/2003, 5:22 PM

I'll keep it the way it's already set up. Anyway, I can feel "surprises" if I make too big of a change considering the hardware I got (VIA kt133 chipset/Abit mobo), so going Raid is out of question if the improvement isn't *very* noticeable while editing. Render times? I render by night, it's been a long time since I gave up on this topic... 'til I change my whole system... ;)

Thanks again.
mikkie wrote on 4/26/2003, 6:40 AM
Where the higher through put shines is in transferring data from one place to another, ie: rendering from a source on one drive/channel to another. Faster access to your OS will often not make a huge difference, your apps slightly more so -- it just allows data to be read faster in to memory. The big exception is the pagefile that WinXP uses (like the swap file in earlier versions). This is usually around 600 meg, supplementing your systems memory - you do want this on your fastest drives with the fastest access, as you're very often accessing it.

To change in XP, control panel -> system -> Advanced -> Performance Settings -> Advanced.
FuTz wrote on 4/26/2003, 8:58 AM
mikkie: ok, I think I get it. Last OS I got (win2k), I put this value on a different drive than my OS; somebody told me that it would accelerate operations. But I didn't really have time to observe it since the day after, one of my hard drives died (tho one that contained all my programs and veg files... ouch!)and I'm now re-installing everything. Should I put the maximum value (ie 768Mo in my case) in this pagefile?