On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I'd opt for the dual RAID 1. You typically don't want to stripe your >>> page file. >> >> Why not? > > I am pretty sure windows would die if its pagefile disappeared ...
I can confirm that is the case. STOP KERNEL_INPAGE_ERROR. :-) > ... and unless you have a redundant disk setup, that could happen. Well, right, but we're talking RAID 10. A stripe of mirrors. Reliability shouldn't be an issue. > Striping doesn't help the type of IO a pagefile _typically_ sees, > you don't normally do large sequential write outs to a pagefile I > wouldn't think... That I might buy, but that's not a reason to "don't want". It's just means striping is not a reason to want. In other words, while it might not be helpful, it doesn't hurt, either. Meanwhile, other things benefit greatly from striping. So putting the page file on a RAID 10 would be okay because you avoid having to jump through hoops with multiple RAID types and volumes. (I do think stripes might still help page file performance a little, if you get lucky and sequentially needed page file blocks happen to be on different members. I wouldn't go out of my way for it (if you're hitting the page file a lot in these days of giant memories, something else is wrong), but again, if you're there anyway...) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
