Speed improvements were very notable for several other programs, such as 3DMark, when performing long disk loading operations. If you need to expand your disk storage capacity anyway for all those add on scenery files, a two disk RAID setup may not be a bad way to go. Your motherboard must support RAID (most recent boards do) and for XP your PC must have a floppy disk drive. (For VISTA you will only need a USB port and a memory stick or equivalent to install the RAID drivers). Remember, you must know how to setup your BIOS for RAID operation, reinstall your OS (and everything else) and have the RAID drivers for your motherboard handy. Not for the uninitiated!

Some flight simmers may feel more secure with a healthy backup system since RAID 0 drivers theoretically have a higher chance of disk failure More importantly, however, flight simmers should be more afraid of the Flight Simulator X re-installation bug. (If your FSX is ever corrupted, you can not presently re-install FSX. You must reformat your hard drive and reinstall XP) Read more about this serious problem at FlightSim.com or the AVSIM forums.

With these considerations in mind the 3D-1000 was designed with a full disk image backup of XP and FSX resident on a separate 40 Gigabyte hard drive. Using Acronis "True Image 10" (included) a bootable CD allows the user to reinstall both XP and FSX (and any other backed up files) to the RAID drive in the event of FSX or disk failure.

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