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Hi there, RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Basically it is a method for combining multiple hard drives into one hard drive to yield increased performance or data backup.
SATA stands for Serial Advanced Technology Attachment. It is an interface for hard drives similar to IDE/Parallel ATA, although it offers increased bandwidth (it's faster).
So if you have a SATA controller on your motherboard or a SATA PCI card, it is likely that it will support a RAID level.
Those RAID numbers you mentioned are called levels. RAID 0 (also known as 'striping') is used to connect 2 or more hard drives to use as one hard drive with double capacity (so long as the drives are the same size) and increased speed due to being able to write and read from both drives simultaneously. ALL DATA will be lost if even just one of the drives fails.
RAID 1 (also known as 'mirroring') combines 2 or more hard drives to provide data protection. The two drives will together have the capacity of the smallest drive. However,the data written to the RAID set (the two drives) is mirrored so that if one drive fails the data is still available on the other drive.
RAID 10 is a combination of both which requires 4 drives. 2 of the drives
will be used for striping, 2 for mirroring. Basically you get one virtual drive with double the size of the smallest drive, and extra performance. You also get data protection due to mirroring. However, it is a costly solution, requiring 4 hard drives.
Alternatively, you could have just done a google search :-)
My Rig:
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Venice @ 2.21GHz,
512MB Elixir RAM (gotta do something about this),
2x 80GB Samsung Spinpoint (RAID 0 Array),
Powercolor ATi Radeon X800GTO
Asus A8N-SLi Premium Motherboard,
E-MU 0404 Sound Card
17" Unbranded 13ms TFT (as my budget dictates)
Pioneer DVR-109XLA1 DVD±RW,
'Nicely Modded' SuperFlower SF-464T2-G Case
Silverstone ST30NF 300W Fanless PSU (With Custom UV Braiding)
Windows XP Pro (legit believe it or not!)
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