My system consists of:

Athlon XP 2100 (1.733GHz)
1GB 266MHz DDR Kingston RAM
SB Live 5.1
M-Audio Delta 44
MSI G-force 4 Ti 4600
MSI KT4V-L (using onboard Lan)
IBM Deskstar 120GXP (80GB model)
usual other crap (floppy, burner...)

I have been considering getting an Adaptec 2100s RAID contoller (Ultra 160), along with two 36GB U160 SCSI drives. (Probably Atlas III 10K's) and doing RAID-0.

Am I nuts to spend about $700 on this, or should I look at getting U320 for the card for "insurance".

The Adaptec 2100s card is the only 32bit/33MHz RAID card adaptec offers. The U320 cards are all 64bit, and i can't remember if you can use them in 32bit PCI slots or not. (I know, they would operate @ 32bit, not 64...)

I use this box for daily crap, but also for gaming and recording music.

Also, while i have some people attention, does the onboard LAN on my board uses CPU cycles or is it seperate. It is listed as VIA LAN device.

Anyhow, should I?