[5gencivic]

If he's concerned about performance then he needs to be running 15000 rpm scsi drives.

He said he wants to do this for as cheap as possible. 2x80gb SATA 3.0gb/s drives with a SATA150 RAID0 controller will be fine. Moving to a SATAII controller isn't going to get him anywhere as he will beable to use the max of a pci bus with SATA.

Edit - Just out of curiosity which SATAII drives are you using Rev?

 

[5gencivic]

http://www.sata-io.org/namingguidelines.asp

Interestingly enough I just found that. Apparently it's now SATA 3.0 not SATAII anymore. Weird.