until i can figure out why i cant boot to my cheetah drive attached via U320 adaptec scsi card with my new intel mobo (D975XBX2), i am forced to build my new system using 4 SATA drives. they are all identical 250MB western digital SE16 drives. need opinions on how to configure... i was thinking a RAID 0 stripe set using 2 drives for the OS for performance reasons, then a RAID 1 mirror for my data using the remaining 2 drives. the only thing that bothers me is that now i have a huge, almost 500GB volume for the OS! big waste obviously. so what other ideas do people have?
I dont know wat u gonna put in this much space but thats really a hell lot of space. Usually Music nd Videos are the only thing that utilizes that much space only...Anyways, If I would b at ur place then I will use two drives as RAID1 where I will store all my critical data. 1 drive for General purposes, anything that wouldnt hurt me if i loose them and one drive for OS with the partition of 20-25GB for windows only and u can again use the rest of space for any other purpose.... Reason I would like to make a Partition of windows... 1. Other data on the whole drive wouldnt hurt if I have to format and reinstall the windows.. 2. It will take very less time coz it has to format only 20GB instead of 250GB.
