Computer people, opinions? (Page 2)

Congrats on your first build. You'll never buy a machine built by someone else!

In my experience RAID is a major pain to install. You have to load the RAID drivers with a floppy. Partition Magic doesn't like it. I've been a long-time user of Ghost and RAID just wasn't worth the hassle for a home machine.

I have two 250 gig Seagates that I picked up for RAID but now use my second drive to swap my page file and Ghost/BU my data. Personally I love Ghost. I feel much safer screwing around with my system. Whenever I make modifications, update drivers, add/remove programs, I Ghost away and my back is always covered.

I put all my 'system' software on C: (including most programs); games on another partition; my docs on another and all my media files on one more.

When I do Ghost it's generally my system drive. But also use it to occasional backup my other data.

My take on Ghost anyway.  

Hey Bear -

Here is a link regarding the page file and how you might optimize it:

http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/blog/_archives/2005/12/5/1434755.html

This is nice if you are doing a new XP install:

 http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/supertweaks1.htm

I like to tweak my setup and then Ghost the tweaking I've done. Then if I ever screw up XP and need to reinstall I can just Ghost it back all tweaked out without all the hassle of starting from scratch.