6th September 2010, 11:07 PM
I swear you two need to get a sitcom.
Anyway, RAID0 is best used for things like external terabyte drives. There are ways to recover data from a single drive in that sort of partition, but you're right, a RAID0 setup is very dangerous and should only be done in very specific circumstances, which the average home user never really runs across.
The best cheat for Steam would be to simply install Steam to whichever partition/drive you want to specially assign for Steam and only Steam. Do that and it should cover you well enough. Yes, it's been a long requested feature to allow Steam games to be installed wherever the user wants, but it'll be a while I suppose. The easy solution would just be a configuration file in the Steam directory that pointed to everything else.
There is one good reason to boot games in Steam instead of otherwise, the Steam community. If you're not really into that, just as you say.
Anyway, RAID0 is best used for things like external terabyte drives. There are ways to recover data from a single drive in that sort of partition, but you're right, a RAID0 setup is very dangerous and should only be done in very specific circumstances, which the average home user never really runs across.
The best cheat for Steam would be to simply install Steam to whichever partition/drive you want to specially assign for Steam and only Steam. Do that and it should cover you well enough. Yes, it's been a long requested feature to allow Steam games to be installed wherever the user wants, but it'll be a while I suppose. The easy solution would just be a configuration file in the Steam directory that pointed to everything else.
There is one good reason to boot games in Steam instead of otherwise, the Steam community. If you're not really into that, just as you say.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)