Re: RAID, SCHMAID.......

sublimeone wrote:
Looking to by a ASUS A8N for a Athlon 64 x2.

For storage I was looking to put two sata 3gb/s (100 gig/7200) drives on a RAID 0 for all my applications/games and then another 300 gig/7200 drive as a media drive for all my photos, music, and video.

Is it worthwhile to buy three drives for the above and create the RAID 0 + MEDIA drive or should I just buy a 200 gig 7200 3gb/s for the apps and another 300 gig 7200 for media? What speed difference am I looking at? Is there a huge difference between a SATA II RAID and a 3gb/s RAID?


TIA


Do you need 200 gig for your system drive? If I partition at all, I usually make a 20gig system partition and it is more than enough. But I'm not a gamer.

IMHO the real reason to have a second drive is for making backups. RAID (any level) is not a backup. Raid doesn't protect you against accidental deletion or modification.
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