Dedicated Hard Drive for SolidWorks?
Dedicated Hard Drive for SolidWorks?
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Has anyone had any experience or information, on the suggestion of having a dedicated hard drive with RAID for running SolidWorks?
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RE: Dedicated Hard Drive for SolidWorks?
I use two SATA 80GB fast drives for my system. All system files (program files, Window$, etc.) must be located on the C drive and I put all my data files on the second drive (D), especially including SW files. I have a freeware backup program called SyncBack that backs up important files on each drive to the other drive (very handy program--works well overnight each night).
I can set up a mirror drive with the SATA units, but would rather have the additional space and separation of system files from data files. (Anyone running Window$ should do so.)
So I'm not quite clear on what you mean by a dedicated drive for SolidWorks--you would necessarily need a C drive--meaning all your registry and lots of other junk will be on your primary drive even if you install SW to a dedicated drive. Maybe someone else will ellaborate on why this would be an improvement.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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RE: Dedicated Hard Drive for SolidWorks?
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You would probably notice more of a performance gain by putting your VM on a seperate (fast) hard drive.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpvm.php
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RE: Dedicated Hard Drive for SolidWorks?
Check out the links CorBlimeyLimey posted and be very careful with RAID settings--be sure you understand what each configuration is really doing. Some configs can toast all your data with a single drive failure (RAID 0, I think), but give tremendous speed. In my experience, the drive hasn't slowed my performance in SW anyway, and is mostly needed for cramming huge amounts of data onto a drive in a very short time (like video capture).
Make sure you have sufficient RAM and the pagefile issues won't be as prevalent.
Jeff Mowry
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RE: Dedicated Hard Drive for SolidWorks?
Is there any real benifet to SW/SmarTeam performance (other than the RAID backup aspect)in a multi drive system compared to 1 good drive?
RE: Dedicated Hard Drive for SolidWorks?
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RE: Dedicated Hard Drive for SolidWorks?
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies
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www.scottjbaugh.com
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