Raid Driver Disk

[BirdDog]

 How can I get my MB to see my USB floppy?  the directions say to use a usb floppy
drive.  i have a clean disk.  floppy drives are always "A".  my mb only has "c". 
this will be a win 7 install.  this is a ASUS MB ( M4A79XTD EVO ). 2 160 gig
in raid 0.

[BirdDog]

I got it...............

[Noir]

I got it...............

WinXP is a pain to install on newer hardware isn't it ? We are Motherboard buddies   

[Gatr]

Is raid 0 really faster than no raid at all?
thx gatr

[Ghastly]

In the past, benchmarking I'd seen with Windows XP environment showed minimal improvement with striped disks using the onboard "Fake Raid" controllers over that provided by a single disk. (Contrasted to the Linux environment, where setting it up is a bit more complex but throughput improves much more as you'd expect).

I don't know if Windows 7 is any better - but regardless of OS version, striping disks doubles your risk of drive failure and eliminates the use of some pretty darn handy Non-Windows tools.

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[Gatr]

I am running 64 bit 7... and I never messed w/ raid....  I guess I should start playing around w/ it?
gatr

[Ghastly]

Why?

Given it's past history as being a real boondoggle in XP & Vista, until there is a clear cut advantage to balance the obvious disadvantages (and unless you are willing to take the time to benchmark it both ways and see how it performs with your specific hardware you probably won't know for sure whether it's worthwhile or nothing more than fluff) I'd say stick to mirroring or non-RAID.

RAID is a great tool - when it works as it should.  It's a real PITA when it doesn't.  And utilizing it introduces some real limitations - such as the inability to move a drive to another system to recover data, or to use non-windows tools to access the partitions.

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