RAID0...is it safe and how often will it crash?

OK, I am running out of room on my 80GB. I'm planing to install about 3-4 games in a few weeks. Thats about 15 GB now a days. I only have 2.9 GB left. now, adding another MAxtor Diomon Max 10 80GB only cost me $40, but the big factor here is, "is it safe?" About on a sclase of 1-10, will it crash over a little or long span of time. 1 being "no, you would have to be really unlucky for that to ever happen" and 10 being "yeah you use than and your pritty much screwed..." any good help would be much apprishiated.

Why not just use it as a second drive and for get the raid? Unless you have a newer nvidia RAID controller all your data on your drive will be lost.



Anyway, RAID0 with 2 drives more or less doubles the chance of critical failure.

OK then, f**k the RAID. thanks guys.

What do you mean, something like RAID 0+1 or RAID 1?

But if you think about it, how often does a hard drive actually fail? Obviously it happens since it's a mechanical device, but I have used the same hard drive in some of my PC's for several years without a problem.



Or you could go with RAID5 I believe, which is a combination of RAID0 and RAID1.

who here actually has anything on their hard drive that's that important?

and if you DO, whether you're running RAID or not, you should be doing backups anyways

Speaking from experience, the more likely cause of faliure of a Raid0, rather than it being the drive itself failing, is a disloged cable while the computer is running. If you want to run a Raid0, it's always best having a third disk for important backups, or if you don't have one, burn some data dvd's.

^^^ so your telling me that the whole computer can die just from a lose wire?! WTF? I'm scared or RAID now...why do RAID 5? I only wanted RAID0 to upgrade memory, I'd rather just buy a 160GB HDD cuz RAID0 doesnt improve preformance...

whoa now, raid0 improves performance, read times, just not seek time

and besides, if there was NO risk associated with it, what would be the point?

grow some balls and do it

The Raid0 works because both drives are reading and writing at the same time. When one drive gets accidentally unplugged, it throws them out of synch, and you lose the data. Raid0 usually doesn't improve performance in games, but in other situations it does.