Is RAID possible?

[Pez2]

Hi,

I'm about to build a new PC,
some of you may already be aware from my previous posts - well i know staffsmike is! lol

I'm hoping to have 4 harddrives:
1x for my program files (160gb)
2x setup in raid 0 for speed etc. Will hold my data (500Gb 2x)
and hopefully a drive that mirrors the data on the raid drives (1Tb x1)

Is this possible? Does anyone have this setup? Do you think its just better to get a 1Tb drive for my data and back it up on another 1Tb drive?
I'll have a ASUS P5k premium motherboard.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance
Pez

[Dreaming]

The mirror will slow down the raid0 anyway.

What about a raid5 with 3x 500gb drives? You get redundancy and some performance improvement too.

[staffsMike]

Yeah RAID 5 is the way to go for a setup like that.

[Pez2]

RAID 5 hey?
I'll look into that and see what i can find.

Cheers
Pez

[staffsMike]

Essentially with 3 or more drives you get a speed up like in Raid 0 but if one drive fails the others are able to rebuild the the failed drive when you install a new one