VMWare is okay, but you really can't run resource-consuming programs on it efficently. Usually I use it for testing, and running Windows 3.11 when the notion hits me

If you're going to run Linux, then perhaps you should set it up on a seperate partition or disk. You really would get the most out of it, as opposed to VMWare.

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I don't really like RAID much, because it seems like a waste of disk space but if I had a lot of data that I had to keep I woud probably use a hardware array.
When I was trying to install Linux on my computer (on a non-RAID hard drive) GRUB got painfully confused with my RAID. Install could see the partitions, but the bootloader woudn't install. When I did get it working Linux suddenly wouldn't recognise the partitions on my RAID - ergo, all my files were inaccessible. Bye bye Linux...

RAID and GRUB/Linux don't like each other. At all.