Quick Question about my Hard Drive Configuration

[gaz_0001]

Hi People,

I have a quick question about my hard drive upgrade.

I have ran out of space on my current two ide drives.

I do store lots of media on my computer... ie i have about 50gb of music, and about 200Gb of Movies, which i keep on the hard drive.

What i want to do is buy 3 new hard drives, SATA 2.

2 x 250GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA II 300 7200rpm 16MB cache Hard Disk Drive oem (HAR250WESSA7216)

1 x 500GB Western Digital Caviar SE16 SATA II 300 7200rpm 16MB cache Hard Disk Drive (HAR500WESSA72163)

I want to setupt the 2 x 250gb ones in the Raid configuration whereby it uses both drives as oe to become faster, and then from that i want just Windows and Drivers Installed... ie Windows, All Computer Drivers

From the 500gb, i want all my applications installed..... ie office, autoroute, games etc.

And then i want to keep my large files, such as my music and video on the IDE drives.

I am hping that this will kepp windows running fast and also becuase there wont be that much on the 2 x 250gb hard drives then i will be able to virus scan and chkdsk and defrag much quicker and more conviniently.

But is this the best way to do it??

Or would i be best just buying one expensive hard rive to replace the 2 x 250's.

Ie:

74GB Western Digital Raptor SATA Hard Disk Drive 16MB cache OEM

 

[semi-pro waster]

That is a seriously poor choice of colour for the links.

You sound like you want Raid0 but if you are going to do that then you should make sure that you have a good backup strategy as it increases the risk of data loss.

If you are running out of space then going for a small but fast drive (not hugely faster than the AAKS drives though considering the cost) doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

 

[gaz_0001]

Yep i know, link colour changed!!!

I am definately getting the 500gb drive,

But i want to know which will be better for running windows and the computer drivers from.

2 x 250's with 16mb cache in Raid 0

or 1 x Western Digital Raptor?

 

[gaz_0001]

Anyone?

Lookingto make a purchase early this week.