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----- Original Message -----
From: "Simon Campbell" <simtrader@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 02:36
Subject: [Off topic] RAID motherboards


> I'm building a PC for trading purposes and the motherboard (Asus A7V266E)
> comes with RAID.  Being rather PC illiterate, can someone explain in
> laymans terms what RAID is, or point me to a good web site.  The stuff
I've
> found so far has me more confused than was helpful.

these links seems to have good details:

http://www.twincom.com/raid.html
http://www4.tomshardware.com/storage/00q1/000329/index.html
http://linas.org/linux/Software-RAID/Software-RAID-2.html

> This machine will be a trading PC with two hard drives. One main drive and
> one for backup (using http://www.duocor.com/xc2k/).
>
> For my purposes, should I even care about RAID and if not, can it be
disabled?
>
> S.