OK, I'm kinda slowly updating my system.
As part of this once I get a new mobo I'm thinking or going all RAID on this baby.... however, is it really worth it? I mean honestly, no 'benchmark' figures etc. I'm talking everyday system, net, serious gamer, dvd watcher, large file downloader and photoshop user.
My reason for asking is partly due to Photoshop, as your supposed (from what I can tell) to not use the same physical drives (say with partitions on) as your PS install for creating scratch disk's (yes I use large image files as I'm into photography)
The drives I have are two Samsung HD160JJ and a Maxtor DM10 6L300S0 (current drive in use). In realistic terms, would it be just aswell to fresh install on one samsung and use that as the main, use the other as a D/L and active drive for ripping, editing, packing, and all general data work, then use the Maxtor as a storage drive.
Also the samsungs are spec'd as being 300mb/s (3Gbit) capable, would this only be achievable in RAID? or is the mobo I hopeing to get (Asus P5N32-E SLI) able to perform at a high speed?
Sorry for the long post with lots of questions
As part of this once I get a new mobo I'm thinking or going all RAID on this baby.... however, is it really worth it? I mean honestly, no 'benchmark' figures etc. I'm talking everyday system, net, serious gamer, dvd watcher, large file downloader and photoshop user.
My reason for asking is partly due to Photoshop, as your supposed (from what I can tell) to not use the same physical drives (say with partitions on) as your PS install for creating scratch disk's (yes I use large image files as I'm into photography)
The drives I have are two Samsung HD160JJ and a Maxtor DM10 6L300S0 (current drive in use). In realistic terms, would it be just aswell to fresh install on one samsung and use that as the main, use the other as a D/L and active drive for ripping, editing, packing, and all general data work, then use the Maxtor as a storage drive.
Also the samsungs are spec'd as being 300mb/s (3Gbit) capable, would this only be achievable in RAID? or is the mobo I hopeing to get (Asus P5N32-E SLI) able to perform at a high speed?
Sorry for the long post with lots of questions