Hard Drive Setup Suggestions

darkspreader

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I'm trying to look for a hard drive that's around 40gb, and is 10k-15k rpm. Only problem is that there are absolutely NO SATA hard drives over 7,200 rpm [on Newegg]. Only one is ATA150, and to tell you the truth, I have no intelligence about all the ATA stuff.
Also, the motherboard that I'm getting (link here) only supports two ATA100 devices, and 4(+1) SATA devices.

Well, the problem is that it doesn't support ATA150, which is now my only option, because i cant get anything in SATA 3gb/s with 10k rpm.
Will I need some kind of HDD controller or something to make this work out? If so, could someone find me a good one for under $200?

Major Edit:

I FINALLY figured out about SATA150: it is SATA 1.5gb/s... Which is half of the standard 3.0gb/s transfer rates. But I head that RPM is more important, not transfer rates. So I found a Western Digital Raptor:
http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16822136054
It will be for the operating system.

Then I was looking into getting two 160gb or 320gb hard drives for all my other applications and such, and put them in either RAID 0 or RAID 1.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822136003

So, my new question is, how should I arrange my hard drives, such as where the OS should be, where the applications and files should be, and what type of RAID to use? Right now I'm thinking of having it like this:

36GB Hard Drive: Windows and other operating systems.
320GB+320GB Hard Drives (RAID0): Applications, games, files, music, and all other things.

Thanks.
 

sturm

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If your using raid 0 I wouldnt go without a backup plan, unless you dont care about anything on the drive if you lose one.

set it up like you said. os on raptor, other stuff on the 320s.
 

darkspreader

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You're right....but don't I need like four drives for RAID 0+1 or 1+0? I won't be able to spend that much, lol.
I could just get some really small hard drive from a computer specialist I know; he has a ton of hard drives.