Vista - My Raid 0

Managed to kill my raid 0, 1 terabyte games drive today.

Absolutely shattered.

Maybe ten hours worth of installs on that drive.

To say that I am upset is an understatement.

You live and learn.

Will be purchasing an extra backup drive exclusively for backing up this drive.

Never will I feel this pain again.

Just thought I would share.

It's why I don't use RAID 0 on my main PC

i never ever recommend to use raid 0 on big drives...
i been using raid 0 on 2 80gb gigs hdd for almost 3 years.. never had a problem

Aye.

Was not a big drive. Well, it was large in size with 2 x 500G drives, but it only held game installs etc...

Was a heap of stuff though, will take me a long time to put right again.

:P

I was just frustrated when I posted is all.....live and learn.

I use RAID 0 on two 320GB 7200rpm drives (640GB), and If the array was destroyed right now, I would be up and running with it exactly as it was two days ago, and in 2 Hours time (or less).

I create a complete PC backup and restore image every 6 months or so, and use vista file backup weekly.

Always backup your drive/data- Ultimate has the utilities.

Indeed it does.

And indeed I have since completed such a backup :P

No one to blame but myself.

Original post was made out of self pity more than anything... :P

If you want the speed of RAID 0 with the reliability of RAID 5 then you could always choose RAID 3.

Forgive me for being such a noob, but may I ask why RAID0 is so bad? I am running 2 HDD's, (500GB each 32MB 7200 ) in Raid 0, have a third drive ( 1 TB 32 MB 7200 ) on its own. I'd like to know what I may be in for. I'm running Vista Home Premium and could also use a recommendation on a good backup app? I think I have Acronis True Image Home 11.0, ( it was offered here for a discount some time ago ) but havent run it and would like to make a full back up and a weekly file backup... files that have been changed since the last backup if this makes any sense. Thanks in advance

One drive fails, power drop on a drive, a cable comes loose, then your RAID 0 fails and you lose everything.

Thanks for the reply. Question...is there a way to change the RAID status and if so.. how do I go about getting all data from the two HDD's to this new set up? Any recomendations?