Quote from: ionD:\Desktop>systeminfo | find /i "install date"
Original Install Date:     01/08/2002, 00:55:57

4 years, 1 month and a day

I know, its sick and wrong  

This is on a RAID-0 array which has been through 2 failures now.

Wouldnt that be a RAID1 array? failure on one drive in RAID0 would require an entire reload

Thats not bad.

Cheers
Tongy

raid 0 can recover in some circumstances.

How?

The disks are striped, the data is put half and half, one side dies then its buggered.

Unless youre talking data recovery programs, in which case if youre willing to go to those lengths to recover the data you should think a bit harder about a solution...

Still, good thing that you can get the data back. I use raid1 on all my critical systems, more for their availability than the data they hold tbh. The best thing to go for if you only have 2 disks, but want striping and redundancy is Intel Matrix Raid which allows you to both.

Cheers
Tongy

Havent had a full drive failure - just moved between controllers (same chipset but different versions), BIOSes. So maybe not failure - but corruption  

Ive recovered data from a RAID 0. Sometimes the stripes break but this can be fixed, the data on each disk is still there and intact.