Optimum Disk Drive Config - RAID 0 vs Separate

[SeattleStarGazer]

I'm working on configuring a Lenovo Thinkpad P71 as graphics workstation with 2 SSDs and 1 HDD. Software like Photoshop, Premiere, but also PI. From reading other posts on PI, am I correct in assuming keeping the SSDs separate and not a RAID 0 array would be optimum by allowing swap files on separate physical drives? Also, should I include the HDD on list of swap directories?

Second, I have a choice of i7 or Xeon processor. Does one really make a difference for PI?

Thanks,

Wayne

[John_Gill]

Hi,

A xeon processor is a bigger, better, faster processor.  A raid will give a little bit of an improvement in the disk performance for HDD's, but will help greatly in the event of a disk failure (sometimes).  Using a SDD for the swap file(s) would improve performance and I would load the current project onto the SDD.  I don't think you will benefit from doing a raid on the SDDs.

Hope this helps.
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John

[bvalente]

agree on ram swap drives, you might look at adding 1 or 2 of those. they sped up my PI install quite a bit

B