How about this new system?

[dmbpettit]

Best Buy may be junking out my pc under the service plan and this is what I most likely will get:

Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor at 3.06GHz with Hyper-Threading technology
533 MHz front side bus
512K processor cache
512MB 333MHz DDR memory
Intel RAID-enabled motherboard
Total 240GB hard drive capacity (Two 120GB drives)
Hard Drives configured for RAID striping to offer turbocharged performance
DVD-RW/CD-RW combo drive
7200 RPM ATA/100 server grade hard drives
128MB GeForce4 Ti4200 graphics card
Microsoft Windows®XP Home with Service Pack 1 (SP1)

I think this will be sufficient. Is there anything about this system I should watch for? With the two 120GB hard drives in a raid configuration making 120GB total memory, will i not split my apps from my audio on two different drives? Or show disable the raid and have two seperate drives?

 

[manning1]

better imho

amd 2500+ with two 7200 rpm hard drives.
if you dont believe me. theres a thread on this over at audioforums.com.
or if you want better drives - try the raptors. 10k drives.

 

[MaxB]

Use the Pentium 4... Never trust AMD. I got a lot of bad experiences.

 

[webstop]

AMDs are as good as Intels, just avoid cheap motherboards with lousy chipsets.

 

[Tadpui]

Dayum, nice system. Wanna trade?

Watch out when using the RAID array with valueable data, because if 1 drive goes bad in the array, then the entire RAID array is no good. It might be worth keeping them as seperate drives, putting the OS and your applications on one drive and your audio data on another. Drive failures aren't that common, but with 2 drives you have double the chance for it to happen.

If you back up your data frequently, then it won't be much of an issue, and you can do whichever you want.

Geez, I wouldn't even know what to do with 240Gb of storage!

 

[dmbpettit]

If I set the RAID setup to make the two drives identical, I shouldn't have problems with loss of data because everything can be found on both drives. Or am I wrong?

 

[Tadpui]

Now that I don't know. :/

Hopefully someone with more experience with RAID drives will know.