I guess I might as well as a couple of other questions...

I've got an assortment of ATA drives from 40-120GB and a 250GB SATA model. I will eventually get something like the ReadyNAS 4-drive enclosure so i can do a lot of media streaming and backups.

But for now... How do you suggest I configure the server with regards to drive space? The cautious part of me thinks I'd do well to have the base linux install on a separate drive from the all the DB content. But should I do that on one of the ATA disks or on the SATA and then buy an additional one or two SATA drives for the DB content?

Would the performance with an externally connected ReadyNAS device (gigabit ethernet) be satisfactory for running storing all the DB contents instead of trying to set up a single or dual drive RAID config inside the server?

Bruno