Greetings All!
 
 I am getting ready to add 1 or 2 hard drives to a home built computer  with 
the following hardware:
 
SOYO Dragon2 386PE mobo (HT enabled)
P4 3.2 HT processor
WD 74GB 10,000 rpm Raptor SATA HD
Audigy pro sound card
Visiontec Radion 9250 128Mb pci (hope to upgrade this as well in near  future)
(2x) 1GB corsair xms ram
 
My main uses of this system are studio audio mixing/recording/processing  
(using Adobe Audition),
Video editing (using Adobe Premiere) and some gaming (Halo, Doom3,  etc.)
 
I figure 74GB will get eaten up pretty quick with audio and video files as  
well as windows and other programs 
so I've been looking at WD 150GB 10,000 rpm Raptor(s) as an addition.
 
My main concerns are:
-should I reload software to the HD with files associated to it (Premiere  
and video files on one HD and Audition and music files on another)?
-Why do different Raptors with the same memory space/latency/seek  time/write 
time/cache have such a wide range of prices(120.00 to 240.00) and  would 
these differences have any impact on my uses?
-Is it just over-kill to use 10,000 rpm HDs for my purposes?
 
I realize there are a lot of better/faster processors and hardware than  what 
I'm running but I can't afford a new "super-system" at present so I'm  hoping 
to get the most out of what I have.
 
Thanks for any suggestions,
-Phil Williams-



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