Legit Reviews

New PC
ASUS P6T Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58
Intel Core i7 Nehalem 2.66 Ghz
Corsair Dominator 12 GB DDR3 1600
Cooler Master HAF 932
Corsair 750TX 750W
2 Western Digital Caviar 640GB SATA Raid 0
Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB
ASUS Triton 81 CPU Cooler
2 Dell 1707FP
2 months old, now my RAID 0 is failing, during POST there is an error in one of the disks in the RAID scrren also I am getting a lot of errors in VISTA 64 Ultimate, like: GrooveMonitor.exe unable to locate component, am I loosing one of the new disks already or is some kind of software failure between vista and the Intel Matrix Controler?
Please help me, this is too soon for all this investment!
jb

man I lost my RAID 0 array several months back... it hurt so bad... Save what you can and don't re-start your system unless it locks up... That is the only advice I can give.

I'll never go back to RAID 0 after losing my array.

What about RAID 10? I'm thinking about RAID 10 for my next (i7) build.

will i notice the difference if i use only sata and no raid config ?
or keep using raid 0 when the replacemet disk arrives (or more $ and build raid 10 ?)

With a raid 0 array always ensure you have backed up anything important. I'm currently running a raid 0. Raid 10 is great for redundancy but is very touchy when an OC fails. It would constantly rebuild the redundancy after a failed OC. iirc about 4 hours to complete.

Raid 0 is no more prone to failure than any one of your disks and is superior imo to raid 10 unless data redundancy is your primary focus for the array. Mine is performance. So I simply keep important stuff backed up to DVD. Also raid 0 is faster and easier to maintain than raid 10.

I did like my raid 10 but as I said if your oc'ing your rig and it isn't rock solid yet raid 10 should be avoided until it is.