The need to have RAID or not would depend on how you value your data. I
have a RAID setup for I value my data very highly; I also backup monthly to
a RAID network drive. The only extra costs for having RAID is the cost of a
second hard drive and these days, pennies compared to the '80's. My first
hard drive was a SCSI drive with an Atari computer; the 20mb drive retailed
for $900! I was very fortunate for I got it at a discount price of $750!!
How times have changed.


--
Don
Vancouver, USA


"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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"mel grande" wrote in message
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my computer randomly shut down and went to BlueScreen, and it says i need
a driver for my RAID
controller. i know nothing about this . . .
i don't want to lose all my files and documents and pictures, those are
like my life...
soo is there anything i should know or do before i follow the
instructions my
computer is giving me to install a driver?? do i NEED to install a
driver??

Why should any home user need RA = Redundant Arrays (duplicated hard
drives)? The market for RAID was business and public-service computers
which could not afford to lose any data under any circumstances (and could
pay for the extra hardware) and could never shut down to back up data
(your
files and pictures).

RAID is documented in Wikipedia etc. and in motherboard manuals.
Supplying the requested RAID driver (from the motherboard hardware
CD or else a download) ought not to delete any existing data.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)