Hard disk and VGA card recommandation

[Harald]

Hi,

I am about to assemle a new PC and have a tough time trying to decide which
harddrives to get. I plan to get 4 SATA disks and use them in 2 Raid0
arraysor use a Raid0 array as a system disk and a Raid1 array for data.
The mainboard will be Athlon64/Nvidia Nforce4 based.
The ones I am considering now are the Maxtor 200GB DiamondMax 10 (NCQ) or
the WD 160GB Raid Edition.
The specs seem about identical for the two drives, except Maxtor has NCQ and
WD has "been enhanced for RAID operation". The drives cost exactly the same
here in Norway.
I have searched the net, but can't find a review which pits them against
each other.
Any tip is most welcome, perhaps I will be better off getting a Seagate,
Hitachi or
Samsung disk, I am open to all suggestions.

You might need a little bit more info. I will not
use the PC for games, apart from the ones bunled with XP. My main apps are
Photoshop and publishing plus some developement work.
Which graphics card will fit my needs? I was thinking in the lines of an ATI
600XT or Nvidia 6600 based card.
Any thoughts welcome!

Thanks

Best regards

 

[Abhijit]

dont go for SATA as I have bad experience with SATA
u may go for multiple IDE or SCSI
my server crashed twice after using sata

 

[J. Clarke]

dont go for SATA as I have bad experience with SATA
u may go for multiple IDE or SCSI
my server crashed twice after using sata

Not Abhijit Guha by any chance?

I've had servers crash with every kind of drive there is. If yours crashed
with SATA then you did something wrong.

 

[Harald]

Hi,

It is a also question of cost, not only performance. I take regular backups
to my server and DVD.
The only disk I have had that crashed beyond repair and I lost data, was a
Seagate Barracuda SCSI disk (4.5GB about 8 years ago). I have never
experienced any data loss since then, and have had dozens of SCSI, ATA SATA
disks.
Perhaps an alternative is to get 2 Raptor 37G for my systemdisks and 2
Raptor 74G for data. The price is within my budget.

Regards