Have you ever heard a method to speed up hard disk performance by combining several hard drives into one? This method is called with RAID, usually used for SCSI hard disks in high-end servers. Now the same method can be applied to your home PC yg using EIDE hard drive. In theory, your disk speed performance will be 2X higher with RAID. If you want to know more detail on RAID, simply search An Introduction to RAID related article in search engine.

To install the RAID you need at least two hard drive, which brand did not have the same. Hard disk capacity should be the same, but there is no problem if you want to merger of two different hard drive capacity. But if you use two different hard drive capacity, the total capacity of RAID will be twice the size of the smallest disk. So for example you combine 8 GB hard drive with 30 GB, then the total capacity of RAID instead of being only 38 GB but 16 GB (2 × 8GB). You can also combine more hard drive again (eg, 4 hard drives) to improve its performance more. After a hard disk installed, then turn on the computer and do the right settings in the BIOS of the RAID.

If you are not using your computer for video editing, desktop publishing, and sound editing, then obviously RAID unsuitable for your needs. Nor gamers will benefit by using the reply means the RAID, because when loading the game will feel the same as usual. So RAID is useful or not depends on what activity you are involved with. If you often associated with the processing of video files, images, sounds, then the RAID suitable for you. Furthermore, you may read on RAID in several business directory & guide.