Advice on Raid and partioning for new Install please

[shortone]

Hi All,

After 3 years i have finally decided for a PC upgrade my new Q6600 and Abit IP35 pro, 2gb Ballistix has arrived.

Would you guys mind helping me work out the best partition and sata setup for a dual boot of XP32 and Vista64 please.

I have 2 X 74gig Raptors and one 300gb Sata Seagate

I will be using Vista for gaming and hopefully the majority of other apps, I will be using XP for video editing as my software is not Vista compatible

My intention was to go Raid 0 for the raptor and partition it into 4
1:Vista System 40gb, XP System 10gb, 3:Games 40, 4:Movie Editing 50

Then the seagate into 5

1:My Documents 50gb, 2:Music 60gb, 3ownloads 40gb, 4:Movies 50gb, 5:backup 100gb

Does this make sense ?

What is the best stripe size for the raid 0 ?

Anything else I should think about ?

Thanks

Shorty

 

[shortone]

Jbloggs,

Thanks for the reply

 

[shortone]

One thing I meant to question about not partitioning is this.

I am going to be capturing a lot of avi from camera which is usually over 10gig and then overtime deleting. Is it not better to have partitions to reduce fragmentation ?