GRiT

Hi I was surprised by what you had to say about RAID 0, I installed this as I thought my overall system performance would be better, and I could always set Windows backup if I needed to (although with hind sight, with what happened I probably should have setup RAID 1). I do admit that I mostly play games on my PC, and so thought that by using RAID 0 it would bring my loading times down, and help out if my PC ran low on memory as the Hard Drives should perform better? Is there any benefit from running a RAID 0 array under these circumstances, or should I consider setting up a RAID 1 array or Disk Spanning instead when I get my Hard Drives back (new ones)? I don't know a lot about RAID as you can probably tell, the only thing I don't like about RAID 1 is that you lose capacity by mirroring don’t you?

Assuming it's not totally knackered my system specs:
ASUS K8V (K8T800) Mobo.
AMD 64 2800+ (Newcastle).
1024 Corsair Twinx (2-3-2-6).
Sapphire Radeon X800 XT 256mb Platinum Edition (AGP).
2 x 80GB SATA Hard Drives (not sure if I’m getting the same ones).
Antec Super Lanboy ATX Tower (not the best case I have ever bought but looks nice).
Antec 550watt Pure Power PSU.
I have considered upgrading but it did score 5931 in 3D Mark 2005, and upping the CPU would not increase gaming performance by much, and it copes (did) with the other stuff I throw at it.