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Rescuing RAID 0

Icon Written by Ron on August 25, 2009 – 9:00 pm

If you’re familiar with RAIDs (redundant array of independent disks,) you’ll know that RAID 0, or striped set offers the fastest hard drive input and output for playing games, capturing and editing digital video, or accessing any large database or file. You’ll also know that it places the data in the riskiest position, as failure [...]



Dodged a bullet…

Icon Written by Ron on June 15, 2009 – 7:21 pm

It started a few days ago when I turned on the PC. Booted normally, but the Start Windows sound was under water. This held true for all audio (MP3s, web streams, Youtube and so on.) At first I thought a sound driver might be corrupt, but I also noticed other odd symptoms: the mouse lagged [...]