Originally Posted by
roybacer
Raid 0 is striping (spliting data between 2 or more discs to increase read / write speeds), this is a technology you can use on ANY discs, whether these be IDE, SATA, SAS, FC etc etc,
Wont really make much difference the the average home user IMO, you just double your chances of loosing data.
Reference the 8GB, WHY WHY WHY?
What applications are you running that are going to make use of that memory?
Anything more then 2GB is overkill IMO
And driver support for Windows 64bit OS's is wank, your guna have exactly the same problems whether it be XP 64 or Vista 64,
Please dont take this the wrong way, but if you dont understand basic raid principles, and did'nt know about the 3.5gb (ish) limit on 32bit Windows, then it suggests to me that your just chasing numbers for pub chat
I knew about the 3 gig memory limit in the 32 bit system - I merely asked about a work around or if I needed to bin that and install the 64 bit edition.
RAID is something that I have never had an incline to delve into and probably never will
As for chasing numbers - I think not. - As said in my thread above, It is in the interests of video editing and production, autocad useage, 3d rendering and futureproofing. The machine is also a print-server for other computers in the network aswell so less strain on the CPU/Memory the better IMHO.
Thankyou for explaining the RAID funtionality in simple terms, but as I have already said in this reply, its something that I will never delve into.