01-01-2007, 06:16 PM
Using a fast drive for startup also benefits OS X performance for everything else too... all that caching, system file reads/writes, etc... Faster main drive makes for a boost across everything. I'd not recommend doing a stripe for the main system drive, don't think the benefit there is justified for most purposes when you get 65-75MB/Sec on s single drive sustained... plus, for a lot of the system reads/writes, a stripe may not offer any gain as they are typically very small files that wouldn't even fully saturate the drives cache...
anyway.....
In pretty much any Mac - replacing a hard drive that's 2+ years old with one that's current today results in a noticeably gain to performance. The older the drive being replaced, the greater the performance gain that is there to perceive.
[quote jdc]why would you need a drive like that?
everyone always says "that would make a great boot drive!"
how many freakin times a day are you booting?
anyway.....
In pretty much any Mac - replacing a hard drive that's 2+ years old with one that's current today results in a noticeably gain to performance. The older the drive being replaced, the greater the performance gain that is there to perceive.
[quote jdc]why would you need a drive like that?
everyone always says "that would make a great boot drive!"
how many freakin times a day are you booting?