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[sev]

So with my new vista burning a hole in it's box, a new motherboard and a couple of fresh hard drives, i'm torn between installing the system and programmes on a raid setup (RAID 0), and use my 250gb drive as the drive for my music/pictures/video etc, and my original system disc 80gb as a scratch disc for my documents.

in essence, i've got 2x 500gb drives, and 1x 250 and 80gb drives, and i'm looking for the best way to manage them.

Any thoughts?

[vauxfan2k]

what board are you using? and are they all sata or sata2 drives?

cheers

[Plomien]

Raid is faster in some ways but if one drive dies you lose all the information.
To be honest I wouldn't raid, just have the 80gb for your operating system and use the other drives for installs and stuff you want to keep

[vauxfan2k]

or get rid of them all and have a nice 1TB drive for everything with an aditional 1tb drive for doing your weekly/monthly mirror like I do  

[zippo]

i haven't a clue what you 3 have just said , it sounded good though
  (4 have said must type faster)

[TheBoy]

Use the fastest drive for system drive, and keep pagefile there.

If you are stuffing your machine with hard disks, ensure you have a decent PSU (and I don't mean a £40 800W cheap shit one).

[vauxfan2k]

I got a nice Coolermaster UCP 1.2KW psu for my setup, mind you £200 worth of psu isnt cheap shit  

[TheBoy]

I got a nice Coolermaster UCP 1.2KW psu for my setup, mind you £200 worth of psu isnt cheap shit  

coolermaster are on my 'overprice shit' list

[vauxfan2k]

only overpriced if you cant justify the cost, 1.5k's worth of hardware needs a good psu and UPC.  

[cem_devecioglu]

if you will not use your pc for video purposes or

query large databases, a raid 0 system -with standard 7200 rpm

disks - wont bring the performance you expect..I have tried many

versions..but if you try raid level 5 (minimum 3 disks) , its acceptable

as it has some guarantee. But instead I recommend (if budget is ok)

try one or 2* 15K RPM disk without raid..Will be much faster in most

practical cases because of droppped latency..

[TheBoy]

only overpriced if you cant justify the cost, 1.5k's worth of hardware needs a good psu and UPC.  

Agreed - I just don't rate coolermaster products - same cheap shite, just cost more

[vauxfan2k]

Agreed - I just don't rate coolermaster products - same cheap shite, just cost more

it is/was the only psu that I could find that supported quad Sli, whilst leaving enough power for the drives etc, I do prefer thermaltake and have one of them in the backup server, more realistically priced too.

[TheBoy]

If you want to find who makes quality PSUs, rip apart a decent branded server, eg HP, IBM etc, and see what they are using - it won't be those overhyped stuff that the likes of quietpc and overclockers sell

[Mr Skrunts]

Agreed - I just don't rate coolermaster products - same cheap shite, just cost more

it is/was the only psu that I could find that supported quad Sli, whilst leaving enough power for the drives etc, I do prefer thermaltake and have one of them in the backup server, more realistically priced too.

I am intrigued.  What do you play that benifits from Quad Sli.

[vauxfan2k]

I initially setup the system for crysis, but now that ive finished that it now plays far cry 2 and the likes, no idea if its using the full potential of the machine, but it looks and plays ruddy awesome!!