Fast Drives and Raid Performance Question

I have been reading reviews on Newegg about the Western Digital Raptor
10,000 RPM SATA Hardrives and the consensus seems to be that they are the
best thing since sliced bread. Many reviews talk about being able to install
windows in under 15 minutes and boot times that are amazing when two drives
are used in a Raid 0 config. Help me compare some different configurations
because this is what I have not been able to find. Assume that you can
install Windows XP in 12 minutes with two of these drives in a raid 0 config
and be able to boot the machine in 30 seconds what would you estimate the
times of these configurations to be?

1) a single Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA
2) 2 SATA 150 7,200 RPM drives Raid 0
3) 2 IDE ATA 133 7,200 RPM drives Raid 0
4) 1 IDE ATA 133 7,200 RPM drive

Joe

Joe

Wouldn't you be more interested in how the machine benchmarks with the
different configurations? There are a ton of websites that compare
performance. I don't think anyone has benchmarked how long it takes to
_load_ XP.

"Joe" <> wrote in message
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> I have been reading reviews on Newegg about the Western Digital Raptor
> 10,000 RPM SATA Hardrives and the consensus seems to be that they are the
> best thing since sliced bread. Many reviews talk about being able to
install
> windows in under 15 minutes and boot times that are amazing when two
drives
> are used in a Raid 0 config. Help me compare some different configurations
> because this is what I have not been able to find. Assume that you can
> install Windows XP in 12 minutes with two of these drives in a raid 0
config
> and be able to boot the machine in 30 seconds what would you estimate the
> times of these configurations to be?
>
> 1) a single Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA
> 2) 2 SATA 150 7,200 RPM drives Raid 0
> 3) 2 IDE ATA 133 7,200 RPM drives Raid 0
> 4) 1 IDE ATA 133 7,200 RPM drive
>
> Joe
>
>