Zweiblumen

Here are few points on this setup
1. Consider other OSes than XP, it's a workstation OS not optimized for server
2. I don't see need for SSD, you should be able to get similar performance from high end HD with lower cost per GB.
3. What is your goal with raid, raid 1+0 should give you more performance than 0+1, raid 0 would give the maximum performance and raid 5 is often considered to be the best trade of between performance, redudancy and cost.
4. Cat5e. You should look up the diffrence between 5e and 6 too see how they apply in your setup.
5. I have nothing against this switch, I'm using 5 port older version of Linksys. But you will never get 1000mb/s sustained transfer on your network.
6. For Windows OS I would say 1 Gb, and if it's going to "play" server then disable all screen and display features (like show content while dragging) and max priority for services vs applications.

And alternate that would probable have less bottlenecks is to use Firewire800 external harddrives on sneakernet :-)

Yours
Zweiblumen
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At the speed of light the diffrence isn't that much.

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