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Does it come with a USB Fleshlight which the character on the screen reacts to as the length of your dick pushes into it? That'd be funny. And make for some weird porn.

But you gotta admit, that is pretty cool.

It's easy to brag here. Just talking to a real girl is 50% +.

The thing is, eventually all hard drives *will* die. This is because even in the manufacturing environment, they can't ensure that no particles bigger than the gap between the platters and the head (mere nanometers nowadays) are in the air... so eventually a dust particle *will* cause a crash and from that moment things snowball as the crash creates fragments which lead to more crashes and so on.

http://blog.smalldog.com/article/why-did-my-hard-drive-die/

Bullshit. RAID controllers on motherboards are so called "firmware" RAID, meaning you'll be using system CPU & RAM for their operation... in fact I've yet to see MOBO RAID that can do 1+0 (not to mention you need at least 4 drives for this).



RAID 0 *does* have benefits, it's only that for consumers the cons way outweigh the pros. Even in server environments where the reduced access time is worth it, it's usually combined with another RAID level to ensure better reliability.

You're right in recommending an SSD, as its effects will be a lot more noticeable and provide a more robust solution for consumers than something as fiddly as RAID.

RAID 1 is the *best* form of RAID if you're looking for *safety*. It provides a complete duplicate of all your data, and its simple approach is often better in the long run than either RAID 5 or 6-es intricate setup (...especially, since with increased drive sizes you're bound to run into problems during rebuild, hence why more and more people recommend moving to RAID 6 instead 5 in a server environment).

RAID 5 is *not* that expensive, all you need is 3 drives... (and unlike RAID 10 or 50, most MOBOs support 5) however as I wrote earlier, for a consumer it's not worth the hassle if all you want is performance. Just get an SSD then.

RAID isn't about speed (OK, RAID 0 is, but that was before SSDs... and the 0 refers to how many files you're gonna recover if *any* of your drives went belly up. In fact using 0 means you *double* the chance of failure), it's about redundancy to protect against hardware failure.

(It's *not* a backup. In fact RAID doesn't protect against the most common form of data loss - human or software error, i.e. data accidentally deleted).



They might use JBOD (just bunch of disks), though once again I see little reason for this in consumer use. Normally this is done to show all your drives as a continuous volume toward the OS.

The downside? Once again, you're relying on a firmware that can be the source of lots of pain... and will likely make moving your drives for a different computer (say, data recovery!) a *pain*.

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Windows can also do software RAID.

Windows 2000 and XP could do JBOD (spanned), RAID 0 (striped), while in Vista & Windows 7 you could use RAID 1 (mirrored) volumes too, a feature so far only available in the server OSes (Win2k server, Win2k3, etc). RAID 5 was supposed to be available too, except licensing issues reared their ugly head.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/raid-additional-hardware,363.html

Using some ugly hacks, you can use RAID 1 or even 5 under XP, and probably something similar is available for Vista & 7 to enable RAID 5. This is possible, since one can *create* mirrored and "RAID 5" volumes on a remote host when using a server OS. (So XP, Vista and 7 already support these volumes, they just don't allow you to create them due licensing issues).

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/windowsxp-make-raid-5-happen,925.html

The upside? MS's solution is actually a more robust piece of software engineering than what usually goes into firmware RAID drivers.

The downside? You're gonna have to format your drives as use them as a dynamic volume. No non MS OS can handle these, and you won't be able to use a whole bunch of 3rd party software either.

...and once again you'd introduce a bunch of complexity into your system. For consumer use, this is usually not worth it.

excellent name drop of a good ps2 game with mechs in a more "realistic" tone, mechs that were smaller and non-bipedal (bipeds are havoc to get tripped up on rough terrain) and supported ground troops in the game literally by having them ride on the backs/sides like a troop transport.

old news is old... like me... *dusts off my crotch*

A RAID that actually has redundancy. Otherwise, just use your drives normally.

>RAID 0
The most useless RAID.

If you wanted you could do 0+1 configuration, the extra space from 0 with data back up of 1. How old of a machine are we talking? Most newer mb can do this thru bio's if older your gonna need a raid card. Would recommend a network storage solution instead of putting it in the actual machine, plus you can do up to 3tb on some models with hot swappable drives.