Drive layout

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I currently have a fair sized collection of disks and looking to slim it down slightly. To this end im going to shuffle things around a little to ensure I get the best from the drives available.

Plan was:

2x 74GB raptors as boot/system/games
1x 36GB raptor as pagefile (with pagefile on seperate partition on start of drive) a backup windows install to rescue any raid issues with the boot drives (painful personal experience of trying to resurrect a raid from command line) and any serious disk grunt work (unpacking zips etc)
several (currently 4x 320GB - likely to condense down to a pair of 500GB drives as im only using around 800GB and being lazy with burning stuff to DVD etc) as media storage.

Anyone care to refine it?

 

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As far as the raid 5 goes, have been there before, only software (which should in theory be nearly as fast as dedicated hardware) and got a fairly mixed bag from it. I am looking at the highpoint 2310 however and keep the collection of drives for raid 5 though. Anyone know anywhere showing the raid 5 performance? All the reviews I can find use raid 0 and 1 which seems a little pointless test wise.

 

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Ahhh i wasn't sure where the hardware processors started. I know the 2320 is hardware, the 2310 looked like the 4 port version of that card. Shame