Best Hard Drive setup for next rig ?

[Jaap74]

Hi,

A few questions, hope I don't ramble !

My next rig will be built when Conroe comes out and basically I want to know what would be my best drive configuration bearing in mind the following :

1) gaming isn't my biggest priority (but I'll still get a top end graphics card for when I do)
2) Ihave over 25,000 MP3's and I want the quickest access possible to them and video files...... I want to do a search in Windows Media Player (for a band or song etc) and I want the quickest response possible...... at present I sometimes wait up to 15 seconds plus, dependent of course upon what other applications are running.

So which would be best for me :

1 Raptor for the OS
plus
2 hard drives in RAID0 for my multimedia files

OR

stick with the current setup and just a RAID0 array for everything (no Raptor) ??

money isn't really a problem so I want performance as the priority........... I'm guessing the Raptor plus RAID option will be best ??

and a side question : should Vista have a better "search engine" (for want of the technical term) and better responsiveness than XP ?

many thanks !
Jaap

 

[Jaap74]

I have, and will have, a dedicated backup drive so the increased possibility of losing the drives/data in RAID isn't really a worry.....