I need help

[a1cnissen]

I am going to get the

ASUS A8N32 MOBO

and I would like to use it to the max. I was told to get a 10rpm raptor 74g for my os and games and a 250gig western dig cavalier for my data and music and what not. I was told to get sata150 is that the new type of conection?

I know they made sata 2 but i dont know the diff or what to look for. I want some thing super fast for the os and then a large data drive could anyone please tell me what would be the very best for this and how i can use my computer to the best of its ability.

If that setup is stupid or slow could someone what a raid is and if that is faster.

thanks

money is not really a big deal i just dont want to spend more then 600$ on hard drives

[a1cnissen]

sorry I really need help

[sr71000]

sataII uses ncq which will give you a better performance increase over 10k rpm sataI. I'd get about an 80 gig for your os and programs, and then however big of a drive you'd like for your other stuff (both sataII for ncq or native command queuing) . Plus...they're cheeper than the raptors for the most part!!

also...what are you getting for a processor, memory, and video card, as those would be much more likely to effect the speed .

[a1cnissen]

CHip X2 4800
GPU bfg 7800gtx 512mb oc
1gig of ram


SO the asus A8n32 will support sata2 and when i go to newegg and look for drives it says

sata3g
sata150
scsi (sas)

what one is sata2 ? so i can limit my search

or can you tell me what to type in to find sata2 drives

or can you tell me a really good sata2 80g and 250g drive to look at