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Setting up RAID 0

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gamer1drew

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Hi, Im building a new computer and am getting a mobo with onboard RAID. I am hopping to run RAID 0 with two 80 GB SATA Drives for the OS and game installs and one SATA 160 GB Hard Drive for storing stuff (music, movies etc.)I want to keep if I reformat. Does this sound like a good setup if I dont care about Data BAckup. I always read RAID 0 is 'risky" and what not but is it any more risky then just a single IDE HD? or is it just Risky compared to the other levels of RAID. ANd for the final question, since the RAID is onboard, will I need to load Raid drivers (by hitting F6) when installing Windows in order for Windows to pick up the two 80 GBs as one 160? or just set up the array in Bios?
Thanks.
 
Actually, a RAID 0 array is twice as risky as a single drive. If one of the hard drives in a RAID 0 array craps out, the other drive in the same array becomes unusable enough to require a zero-fill and a reformat. And attempting to recover data from the working drive is next to impossible.
 
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