I have bought a Dim8400

3.2GHz

1Gig memory

2/160GB Sata HD RAID 0 - Array 294GB total - 288GB free

XP pro sp1

 

How mutch faster is the system with this set up rather than set to 2 drives partitioned.

 

My normal set up is C drive 5GB, another for programs 5GB the rest partitioned into 10GB drives for downloads, data, music (up to now 80Gb is the most my machines had). O/S win2000pro sp4 with two users.

 

Machine is used for Autocad 2D /3D, MS office, Epson smart scanning, Corel 11 and I will be useing a program for colouring in Autocad 3D.

 

Typing this post I have just noticed I've lost 26Gb on the Array and used 6Gb. Highlighting all files including hidden this comes to 2.94Gb on disk what has happened to the other 3.06Gb That;s a total of 29.06Gb lost any idea This was the set up from Dell.