Hard Drive config question
Reading Coolmandingo's RAM question I began to wonder if there might be good reasons to pay attention to way I have my hard drive(s) set up and configured.
I've always preferred one HD and one partition at home, mostly for simplicity and ease of use. I spend enough time fixing PCs at work, I mostly want the one I have at home to be reliable.
Still HD reads and writes are physical operations and so are many many times slower than any RAM operation.
I like SATA and I plan to migrate there sooner than I would normally adopt other new technologies.
Outside of that I was wondering if anyone out there has spent much time tweaking their home PC for improved HD performance. If so, what drive/array setup(s) do you use and what kind of performance increases have you noticed?