RAID O or RAID 1 Choices In New Computer

RAID 0 or No?

So recently I got myself a brand spankin’ new computer. Yahoo, right? I can finally play Vanguard with out lag. So, anyway it was set up with a RAID 0 a 64k stripe for speed since it is my gaming machine. The RAID contained two 80gig Maxtor SATA drives. Now when I set up the RAID I promised myself I would not put any data on it, for fear of failure. Well as the story goes one of the drives has failed, and I have family photos all over my desktop.

In another article I had preached that RAID 0 is wonderful, and I still feel that way, just make sure you have a data drive in the machine. I only wrote this to show you all even someone who KNOWS better doesn’t back up, and makes what I feel was a silly mistake of not keeping the data in a safer place, so don’t feel bad if you make a mistake with your data, I do it all the time.

Fortunately I work for on of the best RAID Data Recovery companies, but if you don’t, then back up your data!