Originally Posted by
Landing Gear
Thank you both. Still a bit confusing and I did look at Wikipedia but it's somewhat too technical.
In a set up such as is on the Z laptop, would the programs be on one drive and the data on the other? Or do you have no choice as to where they go?
Is it possible that, for example, the contents of the My Documents folder could be distributed between the two drives.
What happens if one drive fails?
You get no choice. Everything is split between the two drives. It's not even on a file-by-file level, but even lower level. The only time I've set up a Raid 0 (actually, a Raid 10 which uses 4 drives and gives reasonable safety, but it configures rather like a Raid 0) it used 64k stripes. 64k of data to one, the next 64k to the other, independent of the file structure.
If you lose one drive the data on the other is worthless.