Installing Windows 8 on SCSI Virtual Drive

[Heisenberg]

I am a developer using Windows 8 to develop with Visual Studio 2012 and I am trying to optimise performance to speed up building/compiling and perhaps lower the resource requirement on my Mac.

From what I've read, the SCSI virtual drive emulator performs better than the SATA and the IDE emulator. I have created a new VM and have tried to make the boot drive a SCSI drive to improve overall performance but Windows 8 does not seem to see that SCSI device. I can't find drivers to load because I don't know what driver I should use for Parallels 8 desktop SCSI drive driver.

- Firstly, can anyone please confirm that my information is correct and that SCSI does perform better than SATA and IDE
- If this is the case, can someone please help me configure the SATA drive to be seen by the Windows installation so that I can install Windows on it

Thanks in advance

OSX 10.8.4 & Windows 8 Enterprise
iMac 27"
3.1GHz i5
16GB Memory
Parallels Desktop 8

 

[JoacimB]

Did you ever figure this out?

On earlier versions of Parallels the general recommendation, as I understod it, was to use SCSI instead. I did so buy just switching the interface, but as you've found out this no longer works.

Anyone know how to solve this?

 

[Heisenberg]

Hi JoacimB,

Unfortunately I never worked this out.
I converted my drive to a static side drive and I used SATA - it seems okay.
As a developer though, one could always use the extra performance.

I couldn't even find evidence that installing Windows 8 on a SCSI would even be faster with the more recent versions of Parallels.

Please let me know if you find anything.

H