[Oreo_The_Cookie]

I currently have two 60GB Maxtor D740Xs in a RAID 0 array on a FastTrak 100 TX2 Pro


I plan to upgrade to either:

Two more (for a total of four HDDs) of the Maxtor HDDs mentioned above and run the four drives in a RAID 0 array

or

Sell the two Maxtors and get two 120GB WD Caviars or some other high performance drives and run them in a RAID 0 array

or

Possibly get a new motherboard with a RAID controller built in and run two drives in RAID 0 from the Promise controller & two drives from the motherboard controller


Performance would be the main thing I'm looking for here, so what do you guys think? Also would upgrading to a SATA RAID controller/HDDs be worth it?

Thanks guys

[greenman100]

From what I understand, SATA isn't much of an improvement over 80 wire IDE. 4 drives in RAID 0 is asking for a system failure, in my opinion. (one drive goes down, they all do)

If I were you, I would probably get a couple raptors + a new PCI card, and then run those and the other 60GB drives.

I'm not sure what you need all this speed for, but if you have 2 RAIDed drives, you should be able to put your OS/applicaition on one and your swapfile/temporary file on the other.