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Am I totally missing something, or are you just not making sense? What RAID vs. non-RAID issue? Are you talking about performance advantages over non-RAID of RAID 0? RAID 1? RAID 3? RAID 5? RAID 0+1? Or are you talking about hard drive corruption? Or driver problems? Or what?

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Are you wanting to know the performance diff of running two HD's in RAID as opposed to running them as Master/Slave

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Would the RAID come off of the Northbridge or SouthBridge? I really doubt that for normal use your going to notice RAID. I may be wrong. If you want to speed up your boot time then we need to get into your services.msc and shut some things down that shouldnt be running. On my benchmarking RAID HD's after the system boots up you can open the task manager and there will only be around 85mb of memory being used. That is a fast bootup.

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Okay, but what hard drive platforms and what types of RAID? And are you now asking us for old articles on lousy setups or new articles with state of the art equipment? Are you just asking for articles that prove your PoV, or articles that tell the complete truth regardless of PoV?

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I read one the other day at either cnet or anandtech.

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That is the same review that came to mind, on Anandtech's site. The review is very harsh and critical of RAID. It says "there is no need for RAID in desktop systems." I seem to agree and disagree. It depends what you are using your system for. If you use it to send e-mail, type documents, or even play games, you will not notice much of a improvement. If you use your system for video editing, movies, and other large files, than it may be very useful. I personally play games and do video editing, and my RAID array really is helpful. What used to take 45 minutes to compile and write a DVD video of around 4 GB on a WD 80 GB w/8MB, now takes around 15 minutes on the RAID array. I have 2x74GB Raptors in RAID 0, and wow are they fast. When you install XP Pro in about 9 minutes, and can boot XP in about 5 seconds, you know they are really working. I am not really sure if its due to the 10,000 RPM drives or the RAID. The RAID really becomes a GIANT boost when moving, copying, and editing large files. HDTach shows 102 MB/sec sustained read, and around 80 MB/sec write. I use my 80GB drive now as a backup drive.

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Ah, I knew it was on tech report. Look here:
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