I've looked through existing discussions both here and on other sites, but have been unable to find an answer.
I have a laptop with 12GB of memory and 3 identical 500GB 7200 internal drives, two of which are combined into a 1TB virtual drive using RAID 0. I know that any VMs should exist on a different physical drive than the host OS for drive I/O performance. My question is: would I see the best performance using the RAID 0 for the host OS, or for running VMs?
I understand that RAID 0 performance gains are dependent upon stripe size vs. how it’s used, and are not always consistent, but it would seem that the RAID drive should be utilized where the most disk I/O is present. Having plenty of memory, caching is not an issue, so I guess it boils down to how VMware Player works with disk space.
If the answer is already out there somewhere, would someone please direct me?
Thanks