performance gain in raid 0?

[vian_siu]

i am considering getting a couple of spinpoint f3s and raid them, but is the performance gain noticeable enough to worth investing in two hard drives? i am short in money at the moment so i have to consider every step i take very carefully

 

[ChileanLlama]

I've always noticed a difference - using the fastest drives I could afford. If you're short of money though it's debatable whether it's that noticeable.

Plus if you're talking about RAID0/Striping, then you do realise if one drive goes you lose everything? So could you afford another drive(s) to back up to as well?

 

[erolz]

My personal view is that you should be protecting your data in some for or another weather it is on a raid array or a single drive. Thus if you accept that you have to have redundancy in either senario then if you can afford it go for a raid 0 set up. Yes your data is 'twice' as vulnerable to drive failure in a raid 0 array but you should be backing it up in some form anyway so for me that is not really an issue.

 

[ejr22]

I would say no it is not worth it, considering the budget worries, otherwise yes.

 

[Ardbeg]

No idea about a single drive tbh but here is my storage drive of 2 1TB F3's in RAID 0:

Not to shabby and for the price of a meager £60 i dont see a reason not to RAID your drives.

For comparisons sake here is my OS drive, a Intel x25 160G: