Mike in Mystic wrote:

500 Gb RAID 0 hard drive set up

My laptop & desktop each lost a hard drive in the past 12 months. Bummer
reinstalling everything, and there were some things I didn't have backed
up... sigh

RAID 0 is "Striped Disk Array without Fault Tolerance." IMO this is too
risky. My next desktop will be mirrored hard drives at a minimum.

My $0.02

-- Mark