On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:00:42 +0100, "Ronny Mandal"
wrote:

Hmm.

Fast access to files, short response times, fast copying - just some luxury
issues.

And the I tend to power up in the morning, approx. 6:am and power down at
about 22:30 ++

Ronny Mandal


The 15K SCSI drive will be of more benefit than a pair of
typical ATA in RAID0. A good cost-effective compromise
(particularly if you don't have a decent SCSI controller
already) would be an SATA Western Digital Raptor 74GB, or a
pair of them... ideally the OS, applications, and the data
files would be on different drives.

Powering on once a day seems reasonable enough for any
drive. Either way the best course of action is still to
make regular backups.