Raid Settings

[BIGGS]

recently bought a dvd burner and need to free up an ide channel so i've decided to put my 2 hard drives on the onboard raid array, i just going to have them striped (1 p or 2 im not sure) and was wondering is there were any special settings or paramaters i should put in when creating the array

Asus P4C800 Deluxe
2x 40 GB Maxtor IDE Hard Drives

any suggestions/ideas?

[FatalException0E]

If a stripe array is going to be your only storage, you better use that DVD burner for backing up. There's a good chance you'll need it. There's nothing too special about the setup. A word about cluster size, though: larger clusters give better performance, but more drive usage. The reason is that each file will use a minimum of one cluster. So if you have a 4KB file, but your clusters are 64K, that 4KB file will be eating 64KB of disk space.

[BIGGS]

thanks for the heads up, although backup probably wont be necessary, nothing mission critical on this machine, so no worries about data loss