RAID 0 is it worth doing?

[Bobmunkhouse]

Hi

At the moment I have one 120GB SATA drive and I am think of getting more storage. I was thinking of getting 2 more drives and setting a RAID 0 setup and using the old 120GB just a storage. But I just want to know it if i will really notice a lot of difference form a single SATA drive I play games and that kind of thing not really bothered about backing up date its just a speed thing.

Thanks for any info

 

[Bobmunkhouse]

I have looked at the Raptor's but for the same price as the 1 Raptor 74GB I can get 2 160GB SATA drives in RAID 0 would the Raptor still be faster then the 2 drives in RAID 0?

 

[Bobmunkhouse]

Sorry to hijack, but a similar question: I have a single 250 Western Digital (2500KS, 16meg cache) and I'm about to get another. Is it worth putting these in RAID0? I generally have a constant low level of HDD activity (1-5MiB/sec), for file seeding and web hosting and this impacts my overall performance during heavy disk access as the WD doesn't do CQ. Will RAID0 help this?

I dont think it will help that much you will still have more bandwidth but both the drives will be doing that background stuff proberly better just adding the other drive and using one for OS and games and stuff and one for file seeding and web hosting stuff.

Im no expert but thats what i think can anyone else confirm this?