questions about raid

[5489]

ive heard people having problems with raid saying stuff about data loss? does raid setups frequently do this? will i be happy if i get raid?
what's a good raid card to get.

 

[Pederv]

I used the highpoint RAID controller built into the Abit KT7-RAID board for almost a year with 2 IBM 20GB drives in RAID 0 and didn't have a problem. The only reason I got rid of the RAID setup was because of my recent upgrade, at the time I didn't know which motherboard I was going to get.

 

[5489]

is the raid card at newegg good? has anyone tried it?

Epox ATA/100 IDE Raid Controller PCI 2.1 Plug and Play, Fully Backwards compatible with UltraDMA-33/66, EIDE, Fast ATA-2, IDE and ATAPI *EP-DR02P3 not recommended with AMD760 series motherboards*