Dual 200 Gig RAID - 0 ?

[Sgt_Shellback]

I'm going to be setting up a dual 200 Gig 7200 rpm SATA RAID-0 system on a new PC in a while and was wondering what partitioning scheme or general rules I should be considering about setting it up... This is my first RAID setup.

My reasoning on RAID 0 is to get better performance out of a couple cheaper large drives... Mainly I want the day to day activities... The OPS, primary Apps (Microsoft Office), and Games booting up quickly... The machine will have a Gig of very fast DDR-400. I can post the rest of the hardware if you need to know it.

How large of a partition should I have for the Operating System (XP-Pro)? How big is too big on the partition I'm going to setup to install APPs to? Should I save working files (Office) to the C drive, Apps drive, or do you think I should dedicate a partition for them?

For Media files would it hurt my performance else where to have a larger partition for them?

There must be a few people who have recently gone through this... What mistakes can I make?

 

[PuNcH]

this is just opinion, but i would lean toward raid 1 (hdd mirroring).

i have just come back from a hard drive meltdown.. drive is going to drivesavers to see if they can pull any data off it.

anyway, read this.
http://www.overclockercafe.com/Articles/RAID/
it shows that there is little if any performance increase in gaming when using raid 0.

partitions... there are many thoughts on the best way to do this.... os and most used apps/games on one, page file on its own drive/partition. data/documents on a seperate drive, blah blah... http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/partOrganized-c.html

 

[WaryWolf]

i'd put your OS on a seperate partition to the rest. that way you can reformat easier.

 

[Sgt_Shellback]

Thanks for the replies... I was primarily wondering if partitioning schemes would be different in a RAID-0 configuration... It shounds like being in RAID doesn't influence how you decide to break up the big drive...