Re: Access databases on 64bit Windows

The Frog <mr.frog.to.you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I am thinking along the exact same lines with the SSD's. I have
located the two drives that I want to use in my system (desktop),
one is an SSD from OCZ called the Z-Drive which connects directly
to a PCIe slot and uses a dedicated hardware RAID controller
(Highpoint I think) to control four banks of chips for sustained
700mb/s read AND write! Pretty sweet :-)

The other is an actual hardware RAM drive with flash backup. The
RAM drive may prove unnecessary with the Z-Drive's speed since the
direct connect through the PCIe is significantly faster than
through any current SATA port. The RAM drive is from ACARD (9010 /
9010B).

What do you think?

I'm wish I had the finances right now to do something like that! But
I'd have to buy a new computer as I don't have anything but old
clunker desktops and this 4-year-old laptop.

One of the key points about using SSDs with desktops is that you
shouldn't be thinking in terms of having only 1 hard drive. Instead,
have an SSD for your OS and programs (best if it's partitioned into
two separate volumes, system and apps) and then you can have a
normal hard drive for data storage.

I think you'd put your swap file on the SSD and have it be a
permanent swap file, but I could be wrong on that one.

One of the difficult things about Windows is that it insists on
putting the user profiles on the same volume as the OS, unless you
have a server and/or roaming profiles, or unless you jump through
the necessary hoops to transfer it it to a different volume. I did
the latter on my Win2000 desktop years ago so that my user profiles
(which I consider DATA) were on my data partition, but I recall it
being quite a bit of work to get it working properly.

Maybe post-WinXP that's been made easier to do?

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