Quote Originally Posted by Drizzit View Post
I don't know how fast the 2x 32 GB Solid State Disks in a raid setup are going to be.

I have the 2 x WD raptor with 10,000 rpm raided and love the speed they have. You will have to watch out for the memory. The reason i say this is that the motherboard can use up to 8g of memory and it comes with 4g. The motherboard probably only has 4 slots for memory and the 4g of memory are 4x1g. This means that you have to buy all new memory 4x2g memory. You will also need to buy a video card. Built in video cards suck for gaming. Also you need to fix the bios so it doesn't use the on board video. Even though you have nothing plugged into it, it still uses memory unless shut off.

If you are going vista you can use symbolic link this will save a ton of space on your hard drive. I just link the data folders.

If you are going to change the HD, memory, add video card; you are only pretty much paying for a computer case, CD rom, mouse, keyboard, windows, and motherboard. In the link it doesn't say anything about a moniter.
I was using 2x WD 300GB Velociraptor 10k rpm drives in RAID0, and *one* cheap SSD I'm currently using is faster. I was using a 64GB OCZ Core SSD, which was faster than the Velociraptors, and now I'm using an Intel 80GB drive. There is FAR less of a difference between the cheap $100 SSD and the moderate $300 SSD compared to the SLOW RAID0 10k rpm drives. RAID0 SSDs will be much faster than any SATA 10k drive can offer. It's all about RANDOM READS! That's what SSDs destroy disc-based hard drives in performance.

Sorry, but anyone who thinks stardard disc-based hard drives are faster than SSDs for our multiboxing purposes just don't have any experience with SSDs and WoW. When I bought the two 300GB Velociraptors as my main OS/App RAID0 array 9 months ago, I didn't know I'd regret that decision so soon. I'm now going to put both the OS and WoW on RAID0 Intel SSDs and keep the Velociraptors in a separate RAID0 array to hold the OS virtual swap space & use as a scratch disk for photoshop as well as video/audio encoding.