Booting from striped RAID, good idea?

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I keep "My Documents" folder backed up. I back up from C:\Documents
and Settings\Terry. This gets all of my Windoze XP settings. I save
it to two different drives on two different machines.

I would like to set up XP to boot from RAID to get twice the speed.
Does RAID give 2x speed. Would this be a bad idea?
 
Terry said:
I keep "My Documents" folder backed up. I back up from C:\Documents
and Settings\Terry. This gets all of my Windoze XP settings. I save
it to two different drives on two different machines.

I would like to set up XP to boot from RAID to get twice the speed.
* Does RAID give 2x speed. Would this be a bad idea?
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*No, and Yes.
 
Terry> I would like to set up XP to boot from RAID to get twice
Terry> the speed. Does RAID give 2x speed. Would this be a bad
Terry> idea?

I've ended up with a 4-disk fake-raid 0 running windows xp pro. I
wouldn't set it up this way again, but it's been running successfully
for about 9 months with the machine on mostly 24x7. Of course I
backup data and OS partitions regularly. The annoyance is when I want
to boot from the CD I have to load the raid drivers from floppy.

Yes, it does have fast disk access...better than the fastest HDD
benchmark on SiSoftware Sandra Engineer XI.

Perhaps the ideal would be a small (5-10GB) very fast solid state disk
for the boot, OS, and swap file, and then raided HDDs for apps and
data.
 
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