1 Raptor 150 or 2 X 74 raid0? I am doing serious work next weekend (adding water) and wanted to go ahead and switch drives while I was at it. I game BF2, surf, and just do school work in Adobe and Word. I have 2 X Hitachi 80gig drives and a Maxtor 250 for backup, when I took the Hitachi's out of raid my system lost it’s “snap” (their is just a brief pause that was not there with my raid when opening stuff). When I broke my raid I also went from A8N-SLI with Winnie 3200, to A8N32-SLI with Opteron 170 (I can't imagine this upgrade would be my problem as I am clocked higher with the dual core). This is what has prompted me to get a single raptor (or raptor raid). I heard there may be a better 74 coming out soon; any advice? 150gig raptor seems to be best performing, but for performance 2 X 150gig in raid0 seems like a huge waste of space! 40-80gig for OS, programs, and a game or two would suffice (but 36gig raptors are horrible compared to newer ones). Any advice is greatly appreciated!!
Bandit