Help! Raid advice needed.

[Mcavity]

Ok looks like its about time for me to enter the world of RAID.
However I'm a bit confused with the best way to do this with my particular hardware setup.
My "server" is the following configuration.

IDE
Drives
1 - 120 gig boot drive
3 - 500 gig [seagate] drive

SATA
2 - 750 gig segate drives

What would be the best way to get most performance and redundancy out of this?

 

[Keiichi]

Umm to be honest with that setup, you're not ready. The only thing you can do is setup two Raid1 arrays. a 2 drive 500GB and a 2 drive 750GB.

 

[Mcavity]

ok it looks like if i get another 750 gig drive I should be able to set up 2 raid 5 arrays.
Since xp only does raid 5 as a hack.. any recommendation on cards to use?