SATAII/Raptor/RAID0/RAID1

[Markjsca]

What the fastest? SATAII disks run at 7200rpm and claim to be 3Gb/s. Raptor disks are 10000rpm but the throughput is....???

What I'm wondering is which is faster for drive access/throughput?

Would RAID0/RAID1 speed either up?


I'm making my shopping list for a new PC running XP Pro but would obviously like to make it Vista compatable. What i'm trying to figure out is what drives/combo of drives would be best for Windows/Program Files/Games?

Thanks for your help.

Mark

 

[Markjsca]

Thanks for the detailed answer rpstewart

That's exactly the info I was looking for. I was thinking that the 3Gb/s figure seemed a bit irrelevant due to how much data the drive can supply per second...

I'll probably go for a raptor raid 0 then for windows/programs/games...

Does RAID 0 split the file accross both (or multiple if >2) drives? i.e. theoretically the file is written and read twice as fast due to each drive only having to do half the work?

If this is the case...two 36gb drives in RAID 0 would be significantly better than one 74gb drive, is this correct?