I'm going to be building a P4 2.8C w/ Asus P4 800E Deluxe mobo. I was planing on using the Asus onboard Raid that offers - "RAID: Dual Channel 133/100/66/33 up to 4 Devices & SATA". I've never set-up a raid before, so I'm not sure if it's worth it.
What I really want is, good performance for gaming, graphics, and video, but I also want a lot of storage.
Does it make sense to install 1 raptor as the main drive and 1 or 2 or 3 ATA SE drives, or maybe 2 raptors and 1 or 2 ATA SE drives? If so, can I use the ATA SE 250gb drives (or any other recomendations). Also, is it better to set-up a raid or just run all the drives single or maybe 1 raid and 1 or 2 single drives.
I've never ran a system with 2 drives or more, and I was wondering what's the best way to install programs for each drive?
Is it better to just run the OS only on the first drive by itself, or a portion/partition of the first drive? If so, do you then put all of your programs on another drive, and then put all your data, on say the third and fourth drive?
Sorry - this is new to me, but I want to order my drives this week if possible.
Thanks for everybody's help on this.