Originally Posted by icp222
I would read a lot more before you decide to buy your parts. For one it is the OS and other main programs you will want to have in RAID0 (or RAID Stripe). This splits the files and puts data packets of your choice in size across two drives, so essentially you can have two reading and writing the same thing at the same time. You will want to put games, your OS, and main progs across this. For performance you want 2x Raptors (36GB or 74GB depends on how much you think you will need).
For storing 'data' it would be useful to know what you mean. If you mean really important data then you would also want those in RAID - but RAID1 this time (drive mirroring) so you have two copies of whatever you want at all times. If you want it for DVDs, CDs etc then you don't need to bother with RAID at all, as running it off a standard SATA drive will suffice.
In ascending order of speed it goes IDE, PATA, SATA, SATA2, SCSI. So yes, you want SATA for performance.
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