"Charlie Wilkes" <charlie_wilkes@users.easynews.com> wrote in message
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RAID striping and redundancy probably makes sense for servers that are
> constantly sending/receiving massive amounts of data on a network, and
> have techies to keep them up... but for the home user, what's the
> payoff?

A consolidated partition of very large space, and a 50% performance boost on
hard drive I/O. (I tested.) Such a boost won't matter to you because of how
you use your computer (simple tasks), not where you are (at home). I use my
home computer as a software development workstation, a web server, a Media
Center server, and a gaming machine. All of these benefit from good hard
drive speed, and all of them combined absolutely require it.

Jon