hi nihil,

thanks for your advice. i understand that with RAID0, drives are striped together, thus if one drive fails all the data on the RAID0 array is corrupted. i have looked at RAID01 and RAID10 as you suggested, which look like really good solutions for servers. although as i'm interested in using RAID0 on my home gaming machine, i'm not too conserned with lose of data. as drive failure is pretty rare, and i keep back-ups and i can re-install my games. i'm not so interested in increasing drive size, my main focus is to increase performance.

you said that RAID0 should not affect the bootloader or OS, which is what i assumed, providing RAID0 is implemented at the hardware layer and setup in the BIOS. but i have read many posts on various disscussion boards, that speak of RAID0 causing problems with LILO and GRUB. i also read a tutorial where a driver had to be installed before the Windows Installer would install Windows on a RAID0 drive. therefore i was just wondering, when you said that "RAID0 should not affect the bootloader or OS", have you experience of this being true or are you simply making the same assumption as i did?

i am very grateful for any help and advice that you can give me.


Regards,

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