Hard Drive Failed - Lost EVERYTHING!

[BP-Revo]

I am running RAID - just not the one I really wanted. My brother messed up when setting up my computer. My plan is to redo it this weekend to get it right.

I have 4 160GB 7200RPM SATA WD Caviar SE Hard Drives. Currently, one pair is striped (RAID 0) the other pair mirrored (RAID 1). This gives me a 320GB drive with high performance, and a 160GB with good data security (hard drives are just copies of eachother, so if one fails, the other has all the information still).

What I wanted to do is run RAID 1+0, where there are two pairs of striped drives mirrored together, so I get an effective 320GB of storage, all with the security of mirroring. So long as two of the same striped drives dont fail, I'm fine. For example, 1A and 1B are striped, and 2A and 2B are striped, and pair 1 and 2 are mirrored. As long as 1A and 2A don't fail at the same time (or 1B and 2B), then I'm ok.

The old drive that failed is a Hitachi.

My new computer kicks ass though.

I got a 22" LCD (huge upgrade from my laptops 15.4"), a Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz overclocked to 2.997GHz. Foxconn overclocked GeForce 8800GTX 768MB handles video duties. I also have 2GB of Dual Channel Ram.

hyperasus, you are on the same page as I am. I'm not a big raptor fan - its a waste of money IMO. My friend bought a Raptor and keeps talking about it (its the one single part on his computer thats actually better than mine). He just won't admit RAID owns.