Hi Guys,
I'm looking to take advantage of the RAID ability on my motherboard, I just had a few questions about RAID it's self and hard drives... hoping someone can pass on some useful advice..
First up, is it even WORTH using onboard RAID ? I know it won't be as fast as using a RAID controller card, but is it acceptable?
Second of, I was lookiing at the following setup.
1x80GB IDE drive for OS ( using a current drive I own )
2x ~200GB SATA drives for Games etc in RAID0 - as I don't really card about the data on the drive, just after performance.
Thridly, What HDD's would you recomend to RAID? I would prefer fairly quiet ones but I don't want that to impend on performance too much. Looking to spend between 50-70 ish per hard drive, at around 150-250GB.
So, can anyone tell me if I would see a noticable differance in doing this instead of my current 2x80GB IDE hdd setup. Is it worth raiding or just buy one drive ? If it makes any differance chipset wise etc my motherboard is a Asus P4C800-E.
Many Thanks!!


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