Hey all,
I'm lloking to upgrade my pc around a A8n-sli deluxe motherboard and am interested in the raid possibilitys of the board.
I had been interested in going for the premium as it has a raid 5 controller but after reading some threads on here decided it wasnt going to give me the performance i want.
I guess my setup is a lot like other peeps in that i have my C: drive as my windows partition with my games / programs installed and a d: drive with all my movies music and pcitures etc (okay pron blah blah blah ) I'm not that bothered about the c drive failing as i can reinstall with no problems but loosing the d: drive would be a disaster.
So i basically have two ideas for my upgrade. The first is to buy say 2x fast sata2 drives around the 200gb mark and stripe them for my windows / applications drive giving me xtra performance, and then buy another 2x 400 gb drives and mirror them for redundancy. The problem i forsee with this are that 4 disks is gonna cost me alot, there gonna be a lot of extra heat, and a lot of juice used up. I guess its also gonna be fairly noisy and my case is going to be tres full.
My second idea was to go for something like a 150gb raptor (or better if someone can suggest ) for windows and apps, and then buy a little NAS box and put two 400gb drives in and mirror them.
I guess i want you to pick both ideas to pieces and then i go for what evers left over!
thougths anyone?
cheers
MC