Raid setup

Thinking about getting the Maxtor 80G 8mb cache HD. I have an ASUS P4S8X MB and was wondering if I can use the raid port and is it faster. Right now my HDD is hooked uo to my PRI_IDE with a CD as slave. The SEC_IDE has a dvd prim with a cdrw as slave. Any thoughts?

P2.4BO @ 2.68 w/149fsb

For raid, you need two or more identical harddrives. Raid 0 will make 2 harddrives as one and make them twice as fast by writing to them simultaneously. Raid 1 will write a copy of the data to each harddrive, no speed increase but you have a backup copy if one drive fails.

Any rec's on HD's. Was thinking Maxtor 80G 133 w8mb?

Those should be fine.