Im going to go for Raid0 in my shuttle, but I cant find a drive like the one I already have, so Ill get 2 new ones.

I use naff all space becuase Ive got a network stroage drive I use to keep everything on, so Im thinking Ill just get a couple of 80gig Sata2 drives...

the thing is, as 16meg cach drives are out there I thought I may as well get em, but the smalleds one I can find is 200gig, which will pretty much tripple the cost for me, and I begrudge paying it when I wont use it.

so is there much difference between 8meg and 16meg cach drives ?

edit/ps, Im guessing being sata2 its only really going to make a difference with writes where the actual disk cant leep up with the info being sent to it ?

too noisy

a couple of nice quiet drives will do me just nice

cool, thought as much, just aint seen any reviews / benchmarks so i thought i better check

I know SATA2 wont make much difference, or any at all tbh, but I might as well get it, the drives are the same price as the SATA1 ones

samsung spinpoint it is then !

Baracuda 7200.9s look the fastest, but any drives in raid0 should be plent fast

In this situation the bigger platters used in 200GB drives could well make a big difference compared to the smaller platters in the 80GB drives.

I would find out what size platters are in each drive.

This is why I chose to go for 2 x 250GB Hitachi Drives instead of 4 x 80GB Hitachis.  The 250GB Hitachis have 125GB platters, the 80GB Hitachis only 40GB platters.  Basically, read and wtites are much hígher with the 250GB drives as the platter density is much higher.

Just something else for you to think about

Fair enough