You should stay with a 5400rpm drive and not use the 7200rpm drives.
Any particular reason, just curious?But I have another question - I use some pretty slick IDE RAID controllers on 2000 systems; I can take a running IDE drive and create a mirror of it without any type of source-drive reformat, try that with a SCSI drive (I've never seen a system that can be made into an after-the-fact RAID).
Has anyone ever tried to use such a controller to make a backup system drive? For the price of a drive, I could take it out of the RAQ, connect it to this controller with another drive, using the BIOS based utility I could "theoretically" make a mirror backup of it.
It is very tempting to try, but being the first I worry about corrupting my running system; I do not want to have to test backup procedures unless necessary, without having a spare box here.
Regards, Jale