I'm currently working on building a gaming rig over time, and the time has come to buy a new hard drive (well... 3 really). The obvious choice for me when comparing hard drives side by side is to use a Raptor as the OS and program drive, then have a large 7200 rpm drive for storage. I did read a report on this site before about some occassions where Raptors and Vista didn't get along all that well, and I was just wondering if that issue has been resolved.
My current specs are:
Mobo: Asus P5KC
CPU: Intel Q6600
RAM: 2GB Corsair Twin2x
GFX: Gainward GeForce 8600 GTS
The hard drives I'm looking at are a 150GB WD Raptor (WD1500ADFD), and a pair of 500GB WD Caviar SE16 in RAID 0.
Currently I'm running Windows XP Home edition, within the next 2 weeks I'll be getting the Professional edition, and around Christmas I'll either be getting Vista Home Premium, or Ultimate edition. Each of these OS updates will simply involve backing up data to the drives in RAID and formatting the Raptor for a fresh installation.
My main concern is whether or not all my components will work nicely together once Vista goes in... I don't exactly like the though of not being able to go into Control Panel or printers going AWOL because of 2/3 components not playing nice.
My current specs are:
Mobo: Asus P5KC
CPU: Intel Q6600
RAM: 2GB Corsair Twin2x
GFX: Gainward GeForce 8600 GTS
The hard drives I'm looking at are a 150GB WD Raptor (WD1500ADFD), and a pair of 500GB WD Caviar SE16 in RAID 0.
Currently I'm running Windows XP Home edition, within the next 2 weeks I'll be getting the Professional edition, and around Christmas I'll either be getting Vista Home Premium, or Ultimate edition. Each of these OS updates will simply involve backing up data to the drives in RAID and formatting the Raptor for a fresh installation.
My main concern is whether or not all my components will work nicely together once Vista goes in... I don't exactly like the though of not being able to go into Control Panel or printers going AWOL because of 2/3 components not playing nice.