Greetings,
I'm considering adding a 2nd hard drive in a raid setup and have a couple
questions.
My system is a Soyo dragon 2 plus mobo, 3.2 Gh P4, ATI aiw 9800 pro vid card,
Audigy 2 zs platinum pro, (2) 1 gig xms ram cards and a Seagate 160g 7200 rpm
sata HD. The HD I'm looking at as the add-on is a WD Raptor 10,000 rpm sata.
 question 1) Will the two different speed drives be compatible?
              2) Do both drives have to be sata or can one be IDE (crazy
question I guess but I'm just curious)
              3) If drives are compatible, should I put system files (XP
home) or program files (audio/video processing programs and some games) on the
faster drive (I'm assuming the video files themselves need to be on the larger
capacity drive)?
              4) Would I be better off with raid-0 or raid-1
  and lastly) Need I be concerned about extra cooling for the faster drive?

 A thousand thanks for your assistance!
Phillip Williams

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