I do computer work on the side, and whenever a client asks me to build them a system, I usually sell them some of my 'old' parts (usually less than 6 months) and upgrade myself. This time I'm selling and replacing my E6600 with a E6750, replacing 2 X 1GB DDR2 667 with 4 X 1GB DDR2 800, replacing my basic ECS board with a Intel P35 board with 8 SATA2 ports and RAID 0,1,0+1,5 support, and replacing my dual 80GB SATA150 and 400GB SATA2 drives with...
And that's the question. I'm running Vista Home Premium and it's brutally slow with a single 80GB SATA drive. I record SDTV to my 400GB drive, and if it's recording at the same time I'm trying to multitask, it's laggy and pitifully slow. I used to run the 2 80GB drives in RAID 0 and it was much better, but last time I reinstalled Vista my floppy drive quit and I wasn't able to get RAID working without it.
So now I'm wanting something a bit faster than RAID 0, and have a budget of less than $300 for my new drives. I need at least 300GB for recorded TV, more would be nice. I'm thinking about getting 3 250GB drives and a new 320GB for a RAID 5 + storage drive. Or I could go with some combination of 5 160GB drives, maybe a RAID 5 with 3 of them and dynamic disk on the other 2...
So many choices. My goal here is speed on my boot disk, and a separate disk to store documents, pics, that sort of thing.
And that's the question. I'm running Vista Home Premium and it's brutally slow with a single 80GB SATA drive. I record SDTV to my 400GB drive, and if it's recording at the same time I'm trying to multitask, it's laggy and pitifully slow. I used to run the 2 80GB drives in RAID 0 and it was much better, but last time I reinstalled Vista my floppy drive quit and I wasn't able to get RAID working without it.
So now I'm wanting something a bit faster than RAID 0, and have a budget of less than $300 for my new drives. I need at least 300GB for recorded TV, more would be nice. I'm thinking about getting 3 250GB drives and a new 320GB for a RAID 5 + storage drive. Or I could go with some combination of 5 160GB drives, maybe a RAID 5 with 3 of them and dynamic disk on the other 2...
So many choices. My goal here is speed on my boot disk, and a separate disk to store documents, pics, that sort of thing.