I recently wanted to upgrade my home desktop, I was going to do my own build, however, i got a good deal on a returned Dell precision, paid 800 bucks for the following : 1 Precision Workstation T1500 Mini-Tower 1 Processor: Intel Quad Core i7-860 Processor 1 C1 All SATA drives, No RAID for 1 Hard Drive 1 Genuine Windows 7 Professional 1 Optical 2-Button Mouse 1 1394 IEEE Adapter Card 1 Software 1 80 GB SATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 1 4 GB DDR3 NON-ECC SDRAM 1066MHz (2 DIMMs) 1 Software 1 64BIT Operating System DVD 1 16X DVD +/- RW w/dbl layer write capability 1 256MB ATI FirePro V3750, DUAL MON, 2 DP & 1 DVI 1 Thermal Module Heatsink,95W 1 USB Multimedia Keyboard I am using the computer for Development, I am not an IT guy by any means. The only thing I'm not happy with about this is the HD situation , I have about 50 gig of OS and Development Software ... I don't think this is going to work long term for me My question basically is "C1 All SATA drives, No RAID for 1 Hard Drive" >? Does this mean I am not going to be able to run two drives ? Whats better ? An Development 80gig SSD Drive an a 1Tb 7200 for everything else or two 1tb 7200's in Raid 0 ? Either way I will need to have multiple HD's, so what do I need to get to enable RAID on this machine ( anyone familiar with how DELL does this, i'm sure it is not motherboard based as they would have to have a multitude of motherboards)? Thanks in Advance
