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Optimum situation

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doormat

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OK, here is my deal...

I've got two 250GB SATA WD drives. I'm looking at the new WD4000KD. I can either

-Leave all drives stand alone
-ICH-5R and RAID-1 the two 250GB drives, and boot off the RAID-1 array (win2k)
-Raid-1 like above, but boot off the 400GB drive...

I dunno which is faster. I figure that I'd have faster read speeds and slightly lower write speeds, but I'm not entirely sure...

Whats the optimum situation?
 
It's hard to say without knowing what you'll be doing(e.g. gaming, video editing, etc.).

If you do a lot of multi-tasking then I would have all the drives set as singles. This way disk activity like the OS, page file, and apps can be spread acrosss them. You won't have a safety net, but life will be good.

If you do a lot of gaming, then I'd be inclined to say that all of them will work well; but keep the games installed on a drive seperate from the OS(and page file if at all possible). RAID isn't going to do much of anything in this department except maybe make a failure more likely/painful in the case of RAID-0.

If you're regularly doing video editing or something similiar that's write intensive, I'd boot off the 400 and set the 250s in a RAID-0 array.

Personally, I'd make a RAID-1 array with the 250s and use it for storage. Then I'd look at getting a smaller/cheaper drive just for the OS to run on, as I can't imagine what 300GB+ of data you'd have that you wouldn't be worried about losing. Bear in mind I'm a tad bit paranoid when it comes to storage.
 
General purpose. A little games... not much FS2004, WC3.

I'm leaning towards having the 400GB drive be the boot drive and the RAID1 array, and have robocopy backup files every night to the RAID array. Then use whats left of the 250s for storage.
 
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