Hello Sebastian,

The specs on the Dell look great!
I'm a little confused about the hard drive setup you have on your list.
"Hard Drive 250GB Serial ATA RAID 1 Mirror [2x250GB 7200rpm drives with DataBurstTM cache]."
To my knowledge RAID 1 can only be achieved with 3 hard drives.
The fastest DATA is achieved with RAID 0, two drives stripped.
The best fault tolerence is achieved with RAID 1, which is one drive mirrored by the stripped drives.
I know, it's really confusing.
Here is a link to PC Guide's "All About RAID". It is a great explanation of what RAID is and how to configure it for your own use.

This is how I configured my self-built AMDXPAthlon2700/Gigabyte7VAXP/
Windows XP Pro based computer for video editing.

I have three ATA 100 hard drives. One 120 GIG for Windows and all of my main data storage.
My motherboard came with a RAID controller so I installed two small, fast 40 GIG drives and set them at RAID 0.
Because of all of the programs and resource usage that accumulates on a computer that is used for the internet and a lot of other programs, I decided to use the RAID stripe to install a second boot of Windows XP Pro.
I partitioned the stripe first and installed the second boot on it's own partition.
The other partition is used for the fast data that I want to use.
The only programs that I installed on the second boot of Windows are my video and editing programs. Along with all of the Microsoft Video9 series codec and programs.
You wouldn't believe the difference in the speed of the RAID operating system. Fast!
I have noticed that the RAID Windows always out performs the non-RAID boot of Windows in all categories. Especially video editing.
The main thing about using RAID 0 is to always have a backup of your criticle data on the stripe.
Hope this helps.

Happy Editing! :lol:
Weave