Their Sandforce Vertex drives (Vertex 2 and 3) yes. Their Marvell chip with Indilinx firmware Vertex 4 has much lower return rates on par with Intel/Samsung/Crucial.

Did you just conveniently ignore the context of my post? The 'speed' I was referring to is the high latency, low IOPS of multiple drives in RAID0 (as compared to an SSD). Sequential throughput might be similar, but there are other benchmarks in which hard drives are inferior.

SSDs are not about speed, that's just a side effect of their true nature. The reason you use SSDs is because of their low latency (and high IOPS).

Interesting. In my case, RS 'offered' the Rasberry Pi a month earlier than element14, so I jumped at the chance despite the 11 week despatch time warning. Later, this was delayed an additional 5 weeks, probably due to this RAM upgrade. Even now, RS warn a 6 week lead time between order and despatch, whereas element14 is 1-2 working days.

They really don't. Most enemies are at or higher than your effective level and it's supposed to be like that. This becomes an issue when you are soloing and can't kill them fast enough before respawning becomes an issue. But if you want to solo, you really need to pick a damage class instead of a support class. That said, what they need to do is prevent enemies from 'crossing' their intended zone.

Downscaled to level 5, I faced a level 7 veteran which is possible, with some difficulty. Retreating to get more ground and give time to recharge skills, I crossed a region boundary, downscaling me to level 3, and the veteran one-shotted me when it caught up. To add insult to injury, the enemy was a pig.

In that mode, Steam is just a browser that automatically logs into your account. Just switch to your normal browser, log in and now you can browse and buy with multiple tabs. It's not exactly elegant but it's what we have to make do with until Valve decide to integrate multiple tabs.

Guild Wars already has the auto-hit you're describing... you don't have to wait for Guild Wars 2.