Hello again, JetJockk:>I hear the drives working and I see the scenery or>clouds appearing but the frame rate is not affected anymore.>BTW the latest ICH6R chipset is also on my $$ list. You are>right, there are now many new RAID options. You can even have>2 drives with half of each RAID 1 and the other half of each>RAID 0. Unbelieveable!If you read the existing material on the Intel site, apparently the new Intel Matrix will do just that given the implementation of the new PCI Express technology and the 915P chipset. The site also specifies which sets are included. I hope that today I'll see that happen, and I will always have a Ghost of the drive set! ;-)~~ Ron

Very intersting thread. I do not know much about the RAID setup even though I have it on my system. My computer came with 2x160GB Seagate 8MB Cache SATA drives in striped RAID array (RAID 0) with on-board integrated IDE RAID controller. While that all sounds great, I have no idea what it means other than I have 298GB HD capacity. I have the 875P chipset as well.I saw this above:If you do set up RAID 0 mke sure you define it for 64kb blocks, NTFS defaults to 4kb (too small) and onboard RAID controllers like Promise defaults to 128 kb blocks (too big).64KB Worked out to be faster, at least for me.First let me state that the only stupid question is the one not asked and some of the following questions may be very stupid, so here it goes; How does one check this to see what it is currently set to in regards to blocks? How would one go about changing the RAID configuration if one wanted to? Does a different RAID setup reduce memory useage or no? I really have had no problems other than running out of memory a couple times (have 1024MB Cosair RAM) when using the PMDG bird going into say Simflyers ATL scenery. Thanks for any help.

>Very intersting thread. I do not know much about the RAID>setup even though I have it on my system. My computer came>If you do set up RAID 0 mke sure you define it for 64kb>blocks, NTFS defaults to 4kb (too small) and onboard RAID>controllers like Promise defaults to 128 kb blocks (too big).>64KB Worked out to be faster, at least for me.There's an excellent article on Intel's Matrix Storage Technology on their site. www.intel.com/design/chipsets/matrixstorage_sb.htm. It should give you all you need to know.>How does one check this to see what >it is currently set to in regards to blocks? You're probably using 64K blocks now. I believe that's the default.> How would one go about changing the RAID configuration if one I really have had no problems other than running out of memory a >couple times (have 1024MB Cosair RAM) when using the PMDG bird going>into say Simflyers ATL scenery.That's a sticky one, but I have 2048 of DDR 400 and FS9 still pauses to read new areas. I'm hoping RAID 0 will change all that. See the posts above. ;-)- Ron McLeod CYEG