I had the same problem especially with FS9 and Live for Speed - quite a bit of stuttering in both. I did'nt find any difference and removed it - but that was the option we were given.AMD64 3400,1gig mem,winxp sp2;-)

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Hi Mike,You to be sure...You do realize that you doubled the chance on a disk crash by configuring a raid-0 array. If 1 disk crashes, the data on the other remaining disk is useless/lost as well.

Marco:Oh, FS starts up faster and gets into the sim faster without a doubt. This applies to all applications. However, once in the sim, texture loading (while I am sure is faster) is not noticably faster and there certainly is no 'WOW factor' from my disk config. The 'WOW' factor came after the CPU upgrade allowing faster processing of the textures sent to it from the disk array.To me that shows that if your disk bandwidth is already running flat out - SATA, RAID 0, 10,000 RPM, etc then I doubt if any software is going to boost that. But hey, I could be wrong! :-lolRegards,Mike T.

Hi Egbert:You ain't telling me nothing I don't know. I had one of my Raptors fail about a month ago and lost the whole array causing a complete reinstall of MSFS and all my add-ons! I still have my RAID 0 but now I invested in a DVD+-R (should have done long ago) and have my drive backed up to 2 DVDs. CYA,Mike T.

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<>Excellent point but my system is blazing fast and smooth as glass. together with my x850, I am experiencing BY FAR the best sim performance I've ever had.I back everything up to a third drive.Regards,Jim

I'll third that.Set the options to highest performance, as recommended for simming, and got increased stuttering. Seemed like a lot of disk churning going on.Also, when Booster launched on boot-up, I got a "Tristan error", whatever the heck that is. Emailed support yesterday, but have not heard back from them yet. However, it is a moot point, what with the stuttering.Wilson

If you have room for a third drive you can get striping over two disks and the third disk is parity for a rebuild and failover. If you are using a hardware/firmware RAID controller it will be transparent to the OS so the OS and CPU should not be loaded down during normal ops. The only thing you may need to do is routinely check the drive condition via a utility probably on the RAID controller BIOS since a failure of one drive will not be noticed.I canot not recall the RAID descriptor for this type of operation.While it is a good idea to backup to DVD to protect against dual drive failure and especially file corruption, which RAID does not offer protection for, using the third disk should reduce your backup frequency.

Hello EgbertI have had one 120 gig raid0 array running for the last 4 years and another 400 gig raid0 array for the last 18 months without a failure, in fact i have not had a hard drive fail on me ever.It will probably happen tonight after posting this :-)

Make sure you get a faster video card when you upgrade... just going from 128 to 256 Meg video memory may not buy you anything...Also, have you tried overclocking your P2.4 to run at 2.8?I've found that my machine will happily do this, just by increasing the FSB clock (at $0)..

>If you have room for a third drive you can get striping over>two disks and the third disk is parity for a rebuild and>failover. If you are using a hardware/firmware RAID controller>it will be transparent to the OS so the OS and CPU should not>be loaded down during normal ops. The only thing you may need>to do is routinely check the drive condition via a utility>probably on the RAID controller BIOS since a failure of one>drive will not be noticed.>>I canot not recall the RAID descriptor for this type of>operation.>>While it is a good idea to backup to DVD to protect against>dual drive failure and especially file corruption, which RAID>does not offer protection for, using the third disk should>reduce your backup frequency.>It's called RAID5 (stripe with parity) and is more fault tolerant, but read performance is less than a RAID0, and it's significantly slower for write operations. Every write request translates into 4 IO operations. I have a 2 drive RAID0 stripe and I just make sure that I backup any data that I can't replace.

Mike T:You are 100% correct. Its all about CPU power. Nothing else.A midrange system with a 64mb videocard but with a very fast CPU performs better then vice verse.FS needs raw CPU, the more the better.Johan[A HREF=http://jdserver.no-ip.com]Personal Server[/A]A LITTLE LESS CONVERSATION, AND A LITTLE MORE ACTION PLEASE!HELP:http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=238882