repruhsent's Journal: Fiddling Around With Disks, Again

I posted a few months back about wanting to find some adapter to mount a 3.5" hard disk in a 5.25" bay. I ended up not going that route; I just replaced two of my disks with 320 GB SATA disks. I have a ton of storage now.

The system runs Windows XP Professional, and right now, both hard drives are set up as a spanned volume along with a smaller 120 GB IDE disk. I know that this isn't redundant, but I make frequent backups and stuff so I should be okay.

My question is about striping. I've heard quite a few people say that striping a volume makes it significantly faster, and I know in theory that it does. Does anyone have experience with XP's volume striping feature? Is the speed worth it?

I'm seriously thinking about backing this shit up again and striping the two SATA disks. The problem with that is that I can't stripe the 120 GB IDE drive with it; well, I could, but it would reduce the size of the volume significantly. I could just use the 120 GB disk like a normal drive, but I think I might leave it clean and dual boot with Lunix or something.