I have two identical 8GB ata 100 drives lying around here. I was thinking about buying an ide raid card and hooking these up in a raid 0 (i think 0, whichever one is striping) for my system and games partition. or maybe just install a few games. currently i have an 80gb ide drive on my mobo. I cant really afford a new hdd yet, but 25 for a new controller, then i can hook another 20gb hdd i have on the shelf into my system (4 hard drives, thats crazy, lol). basically, before i spend the 25 bucks, i want to make sure i can do this with an add in ide raid card. the card says IDE raid.
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also am i going to see a speed improvement, they are both 5400 rpm drives, a few years old. both seagate baracuda's good drives when they were new. I am not looking for scsi performance, just a little kick in teh windows environment and a few games, also happy to get my swap space on a faster "partition" also it would let me enlarge my storage space withoutovercrowding my system drive ide bus with a slave drive, except on my data disks. which would store files and programs that dont require fast disk access.
good idea?
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also am i going to see a speed improvement, they are both 5400 rpm drives, a few years old. both seagate baracuda's good drives when they were new. I am not looking for scsi performance, just a little kick in teh windows environment and a few games, also happy to get my swap space on a faster "partition" also it would let me enlarge my storage space withoutovercrowding my system drive ide bus with a slave drive, except on my data disks. which would store files and programs that dont require fast disk access.
good idea?