How would you set this up?

[IFMU]

Ok I am about to get all my components together here real soon and Im thinking of what would be the best route to go here. Im looking for any suggestions on this.

What I will have.

Asus A7N266 mobo
1.4 T-Bird
128 PC2100 Crucial Ram - plan on getting more but not possitive how soon. But should be VERY soon.
300W Antec PSU
IWill SideRAID66 Controler card
-2/20gig WD HDD's - both ata 66 7200rpm I believe (cant remember)
Adaptec 2940UW Controler card
-9gig Seagate SCSI Drive 10k rpm
cdrom - Sony cd Burner.

Now thats all of the major parts.. what Im thinking is to set it up like so.... Main HDD with OS and proggies the SCSI drive.

Then set the 2/20's in a RAID0 array as my secondary drives.
(SERIOUSLLY debating on buying another pair of 20 gigs for a RAID 0+1)

Ive never really messed with RAID before... although I know basiclly how to get it up and running. Now, how does the Roms fit into the picture? What would these go onto? The regular IDE channels? or? What would be the benefits of using the SCSI as my main drive? if any? Is that enough of a power supply? I will be having water cooling in here with a few fans for circulation. So Im not to worried about heat.

Anything for me here folk?

[JBELL]

KICK ASS MOBO!I would go 2K PRO on the scsi - and then if you get two more HD's get ATA 100 drives and run them on raid0 on channel 0 and then run the ATA66 drives on raid0 channel 1, so you have what looks like 3 drives....



DEFINITLY get more ram to utilize the dual channel ram config...

get a bigger PSU first - minimum 400watt! ANTEC is what I use.
and get the barebones chenming case from www.pchertz.com for $60 bucks to hold everything and I can help you mod it with some great Panaflo fans for great air control!

[IFMU]

Originally posted by JBell
KICK ASS MOBO!I would go 2K PRO on the scsi - and then if you get two more HD's get ATA 100 drives and run them on raid0 on channel 0 and then run the ATA66 drives on raid0 channel 1, so you have what looks like 3 drives....



DEFINITLY get more ram to utilize the dual channel ram config...

get a bigger PSU first - minimum 400watt! ANTEC is what I use.
and get the barebones chenming case from www.pchertz.com for $60 bucks to hold everything and I can help you mod it with some great Panaflo fans for great air control!
kick ass mobo? no kidding? hmm... notice thats the one Im buying form you :D lol

the prob with getting ata 100 is that the card is 66... no go there..

and WTF are you talking about with the rest?

Running XP Pro Corp

Planning one more ram.. looks like Im going to go with Mushkin 512 PC 2700 2.5 CL

Really need a bigger PSU huh? ggrr... ah well... get it when I get some more money in... tsk tsk...

[Smizack]

Originally posted by IFMU

kick ass mobo? no kidding? hmm... notice thats the one Im buying form you :D lol


Heh! It would be funny if he forgot about it and said "Oh god! Who sold you that steaming pile of Elephant dung??"
:D

[JBELL]

Originally posted by Smizack


Heh! It would be funny if he forgot about it and said "Oh god! Who sold you that steaming pile of Elephant dung??"
:D

I was saving that for AFTER recieving payment! :D