RAID

[Mobius]

What effect does having dual drives in a RAID configuration have on a computer?

Thanks  ;)

[Weather_Man]

Makes bootup and application loading times much faster, along with file search and any other HDD access. For gaming, it won't affect FPS, only load times.

I love my RAID0. I'm a wait-hater. To me it'd be like going back to dialup if I had to go back to a single drive.

[Skligmund]

My reasoning for not having WinXP64 installed is because I am unable to get appropriate RAID drivers for my motherboard, and I won't go back to single drives... Even with SATA.

[Mobius]

Thanks for the responses.  The reason I ask is I just got a 250 GB SATA HDD and after I got it I found out that my motherboard only supports SATA drives in RAID and I am trying to decide whether I should spend the $100 to get another drive or return it and get a different drive.

[Scorpiоn]

It is possible to have a one drive RAID set-up.  DOn't know about the other types, but it can be done with RAID0.

[the_autopilot]

What effect does having dual drives in a RAID configuration have on a computer?

Thanks  ;)

A RAID array will improve performence like mentioned above, although it depends on what raid mode you use: RAID1, RAID0 or RAID 0+1.

Though you won't get this with dual drives, RAID arrays in RAID 5 or 6 can with stand the loss of 1 or more hard drives and experience no data loss.