Help with new HD choices

[JeffS]

First, my appologies if this should have gone into a different forum section
but it's a rather general type question so I thought it would be safe here.

Second, the real stuff....

I'm about to buy two new HDDs for my box, I'm looking at a couple of maxtor 250GB, but I'm stuck deciding between ATA and SATA.

My mobo is an A7N8X-Deluxe and I am planning on using the SATA connectors on it
either way and setting up raid 0. My plan has been to buy two ide based drives, and a couple of adapters to plug them in to the SATA controller. Reviews of the adapter I found
on NewEgg were pretty good.

Am I crazy for going this route, or would I be better off just forking over the extra cash for a couple of native SATA drives?

I figure if something goes wonky, I can always repurpose these drives on the main ide channels of my box and not have any worries. I'm not getting rid of my existing drive, it's just going ot become the main system drive while the new raidset becomes data storage

The cost of 2 sata adapters is about $40 (total)
The cost of the sata drives an extra $40 each ($80)

so it's 40 bucks cheaper to go ide, and I'm not concerned about major speed differences, I figure the the drives in a well configured stripe should be more than suffecient for what I'm doing with it. If I were looking for something that intense I'd want highspeed scsi, and I'm not even driving past that neighborhood.

Thanks for any advice, opinions, or good swift kicks back to reality.


If it makes any difference the box is:
2500+ @2.2
A7N8X-Deluxe Rev 2.0
1 GB Geil value ram
120 GB Barracuda 7200.7
52x24x52 LiteOn CD/RW
4x4x12 LiteOn DVD+/-RW

Thanks
-Jeff