I had the techs at my local computer shop tell me this, and I later verified it myself: Windows will eventually accumulate errors and fail when run on a bootable ( C )drive that is striped. Apparently the boot sector gets corrupted.
Obviously, this shouldn't be a "normal" occurance, as I have never heard it mentioned elsewhere (like on Tom's). It did appear to be true (for me, at least) though. I ran Win XP on a striped pair and it died within a week. I then put XP on a third drive, and the striped pair never had problems again. What could I be doing wrong, or is it inherant in the setup?
My System:
<font color=red>MSI KT4 Ultra</font color=red> - Replaced this Sunday with an A7N8x, haven't tried RAID on it yet!
AMD XP2000+
2- 512MB sticks (Twin)Corsair XMS3200LL
HighPoint RocketRAID 1540 4-channel serial ATA adapter
2x Western Digital 80GB SE (8MB cache) drives
1x IBM Deskstar 60GB Drive
ASUS GeForce4 Ti4200
3-Com network card
Sound Blaster Live! audio
Windows XP Home
Enermax Whisper 350 power supply
Help.
rebturtle.com
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by rebturtle on 04/15/03 08:46 PM.</EM></FONT></P>
Obviously, this shouldn't be a "normal" occurance, as I have never heard it mentioned elsewhere (like on Tom's). It did appear to be true (for me, at least) though. I ran Win XP on a striped pair and it died within a week. I then put XP on a third drive, and the striped pair never had problems again. What could I be doing wrong, or is it inherant in the setup?
My System:
<font color=red>MSI KT4 Ultra</font color=red> - Replaced this Sunday with an A7N8x, haven't tried RAID on it yet!
AMD XP2000+
2- 512MB sticks (Twin)Corsair XMS3200LL
HighPoint RocketRAID 1540 4-channel serial ATA adapter
2x Western Digital 80GB SE (8MB cache) drives
1x IBM Deskstar 60GB Drive
ASUS GeForce4 Ti4200
3-Com network card
Sound Blaster Live! audio
Windows XP Home
Enermax Whisper 350 power supply
Help.
rebturtle.com
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by rebturtle on 04/15/03 08:46 PM.</EM></FONT></P>