br2, I am the same way. All of our 8890's are starting to have that same symptom and what makes it worst, I was out of town the other day and my power supply failed! That was painful.
One thing I noticed is that in my truck (Yukon) I was getting the low power alerts and had my inverter(Tripp Lite as well) shutting down. We had taken my wife's car (530) the other week on a trip and the inverter worked...
RAID does make a difference, just depends on what you use it for. My compile times and usage of VM's are significantly faster with the two 60 7200's on RAID 0 than what I had with just one (20-30% from my estimates).
RAID 0 on my 8890 has made a HUGE difference on performance when running multiple Virtual Machines. I typically have 2 running along with the host OS (XP host and W2k3 in the VMs). I do not have an official timing on these but compile...
