RAID 0...please dont tell me how much raid 0 sucks

It is the height of absurdity that the bleeding edge, state of the art hard drive management system requires that the drivers be installed using an obsolete floppy drive that the majority of new computers don't even have. I tried RAID 0 to improve performance on my gaming rig. When a tiny glitch occurred in my OS, I lost everything. Couldn't even fix it because I didn't have a floppy drive any more (I had to borrow one to install the original RAID drivers). My advice: Borrow or buy a floppy drive and use the XP CD to create a RAID driver floppy. When you are done, remember that to repair an XP installation will require the use of a floppy again. All this extra effort will save you a second or two in bootup. Woo Hoo!

actually you can embed the drivers on to the CD. there is a program called NLite. You can google it and find it. It is pretty small. Once you install you basically need to insert you xp cd and then step through the options. Choose integrate drivers. You should probably not do anything else but you could include service packs or things like that even so it is worth taking a look at. Then at the end it will burn you a new cd with the drivers preloaded that you install from

Ya know, you can pick up a floppy drive for around $10....you may not need it often, but what the heck for 10 bucks why NOT have one?

if you aren't sure how to install raid drivers you have no business being anywhere near a raid array, let alone using one for your boot.

step... away... slowly...

raid 0 doesn't suck, it's good for when it's needed. what SUCKS are noobs who here "oohh! raid = cool!" and run home and try to make it work without knowing jack sh!t and inevitably end up calling tech support and griping about all their pron that they just lost.

My TF2 load times dropped from >45 seconds to 10 when loading maps by going to raid 0. Anyone that says it has no effect has no idea what they're talking about.

With perhaps the exception of the all knowing, all seeing valis, all of us start out as noobs. What takes a person from noob to power user, is the willingness to experiment, try new things, go out on a limb, and push the limits of their knowledge. Occasionally this ends in disaster, but in the end leads to someone who is very knowledgeable about computers, who can help his/her friends with their computer problems. Gee, isn't that why they invented forums, so noobs could get help from people who know a bit more than they do?? Lets hear it for the noobs with enough guts to try something new, whether they succeed or not. And lets also have a jeer to those who crap all over someone because they had the nerve to try something a bit beyond their knowledge level.

Hi valis!

Windows RAID solutions aren't nearly as good as getting an actual RAID controller-card... you'd honestly benefit more from a faster drive, like a WD Raptor (10k RPM) or a Seagate Cheetah (10K and 15K RPM)... of course, you're concerned about losing all that space... so:

use the 10k/15k drive for O/S, programs and games... then use windows to put the 2 160's into RAID1 to backup your stuff...

that's just my 2 cents... but what do I know... I've only used this solution for years now (glad I did, too... a backup harddrive crashed and I always screwed the pooch)