Best Setup for my NEW HDD?

[SiHawk]

Building my FIRST 'puter. Will start with at least - one HDD, I purchased a WD SATA HDD a 10,000RPM VelociRaptor 500GB. [could not afford a larger SSD] PLEASE tell me when I hook this all up and then have to go into the BIOS and tell it what to do whith this "sucker" to make it serve he fast as it can and stable etc. I have read that if you use one of the settings, can't remember what it's called, that it would make an HDD rund at IDE speeds???
PLEASE advise............

TKS michael

 

[ShintaiDK]

Just plug it in. And possible make sure its running in AHCI mode instead of IDE compatible. However its a very minor difference.

 

[SiHawk]

Could I or should I run it in RAID instead? Is RAID only for more than one HDD/ssd?
I would like to get like a 64GB SSD later to maybe speed things up working together.

TKS michael

 

[whitequark]

Modern PCs usually come with a SATA connector and the ability to run both in the normal AHCI mode or in legacy IDE mode. AHCI had advantage, such as hot plugging and command queuing. There is also a performenance difference, though this usually rather small.

There is not reason not to run in AHCI mode unless you got an OS which only understands old fashioned IDE mode (e.g. win 3.1, or XP without drivers).

Could I or should I run it in RAID instead? Is RAID only for more than one HDD/ssd?

RAID is a way to run multiple disks as one. With a single disk RAID makes no sense.

 

[SiHawk]

THANKS ALOT you guys for helping me now know which to chose when I set the BIOS up - AHCI it is!!!

 

[iluvdeal]

How much was the VelociRaptor?

 

[SiHawk]

How much was the VelociRaptor?

That is the reason I decided to buy it when I was trying to decide between SSD's and their prices and also prices of a new HDD.......New Egg had this 500 GB WD VelociRaptor for $79.99.........and I remember when they came out years ago and were IDE HDD's and considered the "cat's MEOW!" Hope it has me meowing too!