I've four WD 200GB drives. Two of them are SATA and the other two ATA100. I also have a CDRW drive and a slightly older ATA66 HDD (20GB Fireball Plus LM for OS).
Now, I've an i865G based mobo with onboard SATA RAID. This is the current setup:
PATA Primary Master - 20GB Fireball (DMA mode 4 or ATA66)
PATA Primary Slave - WD 200GB (DMA mode 5 or ATA100)
PATA Secondary Master - CDRW (DMA mode 3 or UDMA33)
PATA Secondary Slave - WD 200GB (DMA mode 5)
SATA Primary Master - WD 200GB
SATA Seconday Master - WD 200GB
My questions are:
Is the way how the drives are hooked up optimal? Would it help, performance-wise, if I were to add a PCI PATA controller to separate the 200GB data drives from the 20GB OS drive and the CDRW drive?
Should I bother with the dynamic disk options in win2k/xp? Should I bother with software raid?
Any compelling reasons to use Linux instead of Windows? Please keep in mind I've practically no experience with Linux.
The data drives are still empty so I can change the setup as I please, for now...
Now, I've an i865G based mobo with onboard SATA RAID. This is the current setup:
PATA Primary Master - 20GB Fireball (DMA mode 4 or ATA66)
PATA Primary Slave - WD 200GB (DMA mode 5 or ATA100)
PATA Secondary Master - CDRW (DMA mode 3 or UDMA33)
PATA Secondary Slave - WD 200GB (DMA mode 5)
SATA Primary Master - WD 200GB
SATA Seconday Master - WD 200GB
My questions are:
Is the way how the drives are hooked up optimal? Would it help, performance-wise, if I were to add a PCI PATA controller to separate the 200GB data drives from the 20GB OS drive and the CDRW drive?
Should I bother with the dynamic disk options in win2k/xp? Should I bother with software raid?
Any compelling reasons to use Linux instead of Windows? Please keep in mind I've practically no experience with Linux.
The data drives are still empty so I can change the setup as I please, for now...
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