Replace IDE Hard Drive with SCSI

[powlaz]

I have a U160 RAID controller and a pair of 68pin SCSI drives laying around that I was thinking of installing in my computer.  The idea is to replace my IDE Hard drive with the SCSI drives and set up a mirrored partition.  The drives are 18GB so they'd only be good for my Windows but here's what I'm thinking:

1.  10K drives will certainly improve OS performance, right?
2.  Will the RAID 1 slow down any improvements I might notice from adding the 10K drives?
3.  Is U160 fast?
4.  How do I terminate the SCSI connection on the RAID card that will be outside of the PC?

Thanks for the help,

PO

[DeltaSlaya]

1. Possibly, depends on applications being used.
2. No it won't make it run slower, or it shouldn't.
3. I assume 160 refers to the MB/s? If so it's better than a 133MB/s IDE but slower than a 300MB/s SATA-II.
4. Disable it in Device Manager? If it comes up there.