RAID setup with IDE Ultra hard drives?

[Rolyasm]

Thanks in advance,
Setting up a new system. Asus A8V, AMD 3500, ATI RADEON 9600xt, 1gb RAM (Corsair with heatsink). I purchased 2 seperate Western Digital 200Gb, 7200 rpm 8mg, got them at a great price. I figured I might as well set up a RAID, even though I mostly to gaming, some photo editing and basic home use. Is it worth it to do RAID if I am not doing huge video editing. If so, how do I set it up?
First, do I use a seperate interface cable for each HD, or do I use one cable and set one up as Master and one as Slave? If seperate, are they both Master? I got a good response from ASUS on the software portion of set up, but nothing on the hardware portion. Thanks for your time.

[latency]

TBH if you're going RAID 0 or 1 don't bother. Unless you have a specific reason that is...

RAID-0 only gives a marginal speed boost and you add the risk of loosing ALL your data if only 1 drive fails.

And RAID-1, you loose one of the drives altogether to mirror the first.

If I were you I'd go with the old os and apps on one drive, files on the other method.

[Rolyasm]

What about RAID 0+1. ASUS manual says allows fast data access but with ability to loose one drive and have a complete duplicate surviving drive? I format my drives about once a year to get all the junk off. I love the way it runs after that. Will it be harder with RAID to format at start over? Also, still wondering if I do RAID, are both HDrives on one IDE interface cable or two, and set as Master? Thanks. Nice rig.

[shifty.ricky]

Raid 0+1 (Raid 10 I think is its offical name) needs 4 drives.

[bLaXe]

If you are still considering RAID-0 I direct your attention to this article (http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.html?i=2101) from AnandTech (http://www.anandtech.com). It certainly raises some intertesting points.

[stdPikachu]

Raid 0+1 (Raid 10 I think is its offical name) needs 4 drives.

RAID10 is different from RAID0+1 but they both need four drives.

[Rolyasm]

Thanks all. Set up a RAID 0 since I had 2 hard drives at dirt cheap prices. Also put another 120gb in from my old computer. It all seems to work like a charm. Haven't noticed a huge difference on anything yet, but haven't had time to play around.
Rolyasm