Hi, I've been working with computers since I was 3 and building them since 12 or so, and I've always had no trouble figuring things out. I recently bought a 500GB seagate raid drive, and tried to install it multiple ways like I usually do to figure new things out, but no matter what I try, I can't get it to show up in my computer. There are 8 connections for raid drives on my mobo, 4 red ones listed raid 1 to raid 4, and 4 black ones listed raid 1 to raid 4. The drive had a jumper block on it and listed the position it was in when I bought it as 'limited to 1.5 gb/s' and showed no jumper block as '3 gb/s' so I removed the jumper block. When I boot up my system, it says no valid device when it gets to the RAID part, though sometimes it went normally when I tried a different way to plug it in. I know that most people use 2 raid drives and make an array, but I would have thought you could use a single raid drive. What am I doing wrong, and are the benefits from having an array of 2 drives worth the extra $120? (I'm a hardcore gamer). Thanks for the help!