It should be able to, although the system specs are a bit low. You may have to turn down some graphics settings to medium or low, but you should be able to handle raids.
You'd be better off with a more modern computer, however. The CPU is a couple generations out of date. The memory is a quarter the clock speed of the current average, and there's only 25% as much of it as the previous-before-current generation of computers. The optical drive and hard drive are decent, but you can get 1 terabyte hard drives these days for $70. Like everything else, the video and sound cards are decent but a couple generations old.
Upgrading the system will be a problem, since all the parts are badly outdated (5+ years old), and the motherboard simply doesn't have the right connectors for modern hardware (no PCI Express slots, for example).
The fact that the computer comes with a 56k modem and a floppy disk drive is a very bad sign. It was pretty close to top of the line in 2004, but given how a computer generation is roughly 1.5 years, buying a 7 year old computer is kinda like buying a 27 year old car. Unless it has some value as a classic car, it's probably a bad idea.
I recently bought a new computer (bought parts and paid to have them assembled). I paid just under $2000, and the specs of it should give you an idea of what a median-quality gaming machine is like these days: 3.4ghz i7 (quad core) CPU, 16 GB of 1.6 GHZ RAM (motherboard supports up to 32 GB), 1 TB hard drive, rewritable Blu-Ray Lightscribe DVD drive, NVIDIA GTX 550 ti video card (1 GB video RAM, 1.8 GHZ video processor), Soundblaster X-Fi Fatal1ty sound card (64 MB RAM). It doesn't have a modem or floppy disk drive, because nobody really uses those anymore, not for gaming machines anyway. The computer runs the 64-bit version of Windows 7.
For a top of the line gaming machine these days, you can spend over $4,000 on the video cards (yes, plural) all by themselves.
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