Hi all, trying to figure what all this RAID stuff people are talking about is. What do I do with it? Also, I bought a new custom built PC, and I have this icon in my taskbar called "JMicron Raid Configurer" Does that have anything to do with this RAID stuff? Thanks,Jeff

Its explained here.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundant_arr...dependent_diskshttp://www.staff.uni-mainz.de/neuffer/scsi/what_is_raid.htmlRAID 0 is what I would be looking for, for flight simManny

RAID 0, or striping, can give very fast performance, with one BIG caveat. Lose a disk and you're toast, until you replace the disk, reformat the RAID array, and restore ALL your data.If you've got say three or four disks, then RAID 5 (striping with parity spread across the disks) will give you as high a read rate as RAID 0, and if you lose a drive you keep running. Just pop a new drive in, and tell the controller to rebuild while you sleep.If you've only got two drives, then I recommend making them big drives and mirror them (RAID 1). YES, you basically end up "wasting" a drive, but consider the cost of the drive versus the time needed to recover from a failure. You also get twice the read bandwidth, and read performance is more important then write performance for Flight Simming.Currently I don't use RAID at all, I have three hard disks, and they are partitioned in such a way that backups of disk A are on disk B, Disk B is backed up to Disk C, and so on. That helps a little since I have good backups and a decent restore path, but it's not as nice as RAID.Next PC will have three or four drives in a RAID 5 array.

Why not do a raid 0 on two drives and then a thrid drive is a back up of the two drives? Is that possible?

There is no permanent loss in Flight sim.. (Assuming flight sim is your primary application). Its not like you have a database that may be lost for ever.All you have to do is..reinstall flight sims and the addons.The chances of a disk failiure is low. Low X 2 is still low.Just my opinion.As for backups... copy files to a DVD.:)Manny

Yeah, I get tired of people saying that if you raid 0 and loose a disk your toast. Like when you

>Yeah, I get tired of people saying that if you raid 0 and>loose a disk your toast. Like when you

"The difference is clear. My time is more valuable to me than yours is to you"Yup... There is no right answer. Obviously adding more disks with fault tolerence is better. But the Q is... is the added cost worth the effort of reinstaling FSim and addons considering the low probability of such a failure.IMO, its not worth the extra cost (FOR ME). A 150MB Raptor (10,000RPM) hard disk costs around $250. It is a normative judgement.Manny