Help required in Booting-out, Boot-up problems..!

[the_autopilot]

When someone starts quoting every line of what someone's posted to use in an argument then I know that that person needs to get out a bit more. Take my advice auto.

I don't need your crap advice nor do I need you to tell me I don't have a life. I have a life and a good one at that.

That's in the nicest possible way of course  ;)

Somehow I doubt that.

[the_autopilot]

For a good definition of RAID, see the following site.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html

Basically, it allows you to lose a hard drive and not lose any data.

You can also do a stripe raid which allows you to 'combine' many hard drives and use them as if they were one. A stripe raid does not reduce performence.

Combinations of the two are also available (Redundency and stripe).

A redundency RAID does reduce performence, unless your RAID controller/card has an onbaord parity chip that offloads parity operations from the CPU. RAID controllers integrated on motherboards generally do not have a seperate parity chip and use the CPU to perform RAID operations.

Generally, RAID with redundency is only used for servers or if you have highly valuable data.