Hi there,I'm in the process of buying a new rig. I originally had configured it with two Raptors:(Extreme Performance (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives 300GB (150GBx2) Gaming Western Digital Rapter 10,000RPM SATA150 16MB Cache WD1500ADFD)I have no idea about Raid0 or 1 or 0 but I'm wondering after reading posts about data loss if this is the way to go? Will I gain a whole lot by using those 10,000 rpm drives over 7,200 using FS9 and FSX only? I don't play any other games but I'm a hardcore simmer.I'm getting a C2D 6700 processor with 2GM 6800RAM and a 8800GTX, would 7,200 drives be a bottleneck to that type of system?Any help would be greatly appreciated.Cheers,Petehttp://members.aol.com/pzsoulman/myhomepage/logo.gifAMD64-3400,1GB/3200DDRAM,WinXP(SP2),DirectX9.0c,Geforce6800(128MB)(Det.84.21), CH Yoke/Pedals

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/394Hope this helps,Greg

>http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/394>>Hope this helps,>>GregThat article in your post was very rewarding to read however it left one question un-answered.What does this group believe the raid 0 stripe size should be set to for running flight sims?Monty Howardn9znTampa, Florida, U.S.A.

Assuming that performance is job 1 and the reason for using RAID 0 in the first place, and that there is more than ample room on the HDD system to afford losing maybe 5% to striping slack as a cost of doing business that way, I'd say go for the largest stripe size available (probably 128K or 256K depending on the controller).73Bob ScottATP IMEL Gulfstream II-III-IV-V L-300Santiago de Chile