Craig White wrote: > if not a marketing tactic attempting to imbue extra value. Well. It is just an market anomaly created by the Microsoft's decision to disable software RAID feature in non-server versions of Windows. For whatever reason, Microsoft decided that desktop users don't need software RAID. Probably using the same logic that coined the famous "640Kb is enough for everybody" phrase. After engineering was done with its job (which was actually quite logical thing to do), marketing simply went one step further by not telling people what really they are spending their money on: standard disk controller with software RAID device driver. Given the almost non-existant laws for consumer protection in western world, almost anything can go.