I've always wanted to do this but never had the time - it'd be interesting to note what the performance gain was in relation to the fact that you increase your risk of causing an outage due to a single disk failure. From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk Sent: 28 April 2007 15:38 To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: RAID 1 It's a very interesting question indeed. Which blades are you using? What kind of i/o controller? Putting the pagefile (alone) on a second partition will help performance with regards that the pagefile will be create as one large continuous(non fragmented) file. With some controllers (those with NO cache), you can see an increase in performance by not using RAID 1 and have two independent spindles and put the pagefile, temp dirs, and spooler on the second drive. But if you are going to do that, then why not set it up a RAID 0 with a second partition for the pagefile. We literally 2x the performance in reads and writes with the configuration over RAID 1. Joe On 4/27/07, Charles Watts <gregwatts77@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: We are using HP Blades with RIAD 1 for our Citrix Servers on Windows Server 2003 SP1. My question is would we get better disk i/o performance if we partioned the RAID 1 into two partitions and stuck the page file, temp directories and programs on the second partition? If not has any one used a RAMDISK for this? Or is their an argument for eliminating RAID 1 altogether and just put the page file, temp directories on the second hard drive (better performance and more disk space). Since I have a boat load of blades where is the risk? So I lose one or two drives a year on my servers and each time 50 - 60 users get kicked off. heck! I do that accidently at least once a year!? Managment might not buy that argument but If the performance gain is significant then it's worth it. Your thoughts? Thanks, Greg SBC SITES ONLY GOOGLE SEARCH: http://www.F1U.com ************************************************ For Archives, RSS, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: //www.freelists.org/list/thin ************************************************