Thank you to Hugh for the link to a great article. It contained exactly what
I needed to be convinced that RAID is not for me. Currently I am running a
256GB Samsung 830 SSD. All seems fine. Samsung seems to have a good
reliability history. I am VERY gun shy of OCZ drives given my experience
with the Vertex 2 100GB model. Of course my earlier 60GB is still running
just fine, but to have lost 4 SSD drives within hours or months of use was
rather disturbing.

I also noticed that I posted my follow-up in PCSOFT instead of PCBUILD.
Sorry about that error, but thank you all for the helpful comments.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Vandervoort [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 10:36 AM
Subject: Re: RAID

In addition to what Mark said, you should also know that RAID 0 failures
generally mean unrecoverable loss of all data. Any speed increase is often
marginal and sometimes there's none at all. I'm speaking from personal
experience and observation of other losses.
You'll find this article interesting.
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Why-RAID-is-usually-a-Terrible-Ide
a-29

         PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download
                     visit our download web page at
                  http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml