I have used Raid on four machines now, 2-ABit NF7-s and 2 Asus
M2N32-SLI deluxe motherboards with Maxtor and Samsung hard drives.
They have worked flawlessly. I used stripping for speed and mirroring
for security and you can really tell the difference in speed between
those systems. I guess the best solution is fours hard drives using
stripping and mirroring but then you are getting into very serious
systems and you still need to make backups - lets face it, if you
accidentally delete a file it is gone from the system even if it was
mirrored.

Raid works but you may be just as happy with one big Sata II drive. I
bought 2 80 GB Sata II drives on sale for about $43 and they work
great set up as raid 0 - 149 fast GBs. :-)

Ak




On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:09:46 -0400, "bill.boylan"
<bill.boylan@cox.net> wrote:
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>I'm buying a new computer with Vista installed. One of the options I can
>specify is a "DataSafe" hard drive which is really three hard drives: two
>drives for the RAID 0 and one drive to backup the whole thing. I'm getting
>cold feet on this. If anybody reading this has had RAID experience, please
>give me some advice. Would I be happy with the RAID or am I just asking for
>trouble?
>
>Bill Boylan
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