[wasssup1990]

I'm considering getting one or two SATA HDDs to give the old PATA HDDs a rest. I have never used SATA before, but it couldn't be that hard to set up.

I have a A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard that supports four SATA-300 drives and has one external connector for 16 external e-SATA drives - i think.

I'm not sure if I should get one high capacity SATA-300 drive, or setup a RAID-0 so that I can get double the performance and capacity. If I do use RAID-0 i will end up getting a theretical 600MB/s, but can the computer handle that much data flow anyway?

I'm going to use my older PATA 120GB and 160GB HDD as storage since I do alot of intense work on this machine.

Thanks for any help.:smooch:

 

[blackduck30]

you will not get double the performance out of a raid 0 but it does run faster than a single drive, have a read of this article and it may help

http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardware-support/troubleshooting-tips-tricks/118507-sata-drives.html

also in the article it has a link to the HD Tach scores, it is worth looking through the scores and systems that scored them to see what type of performance to expect

http://www.techsupportforum.com/f16/hd-tach-scores-110202.html