Raid = worth it ?

[Dark_Angel]

Am highly considering getting a few sata drives soon (say 80 GB) just for windows and programs I use on a regular basis (for Photoshop, swapfiles, and whatever).

Is it worth it in terms of performance ? am I right when I say that I basically need 2 drives of the same speed / size (say 2 samsung 7200 RPM 16MB cache 80 GB Sata drives) and just use the raid tool to set them up ?

Is loading a huge amount faster ?

Thanks

 

[Dark_Angel]

Actually I do web design and graphics work for a living.

At the moment I am running 4GB ram, and a Q6600.

Photoshop basically doesn't really have problems on that at the moment, but video editting and whatever (which I really want to start getting in to) I figured might like raid.

Need to do more reading me thinks :/

 

[Dark_Angel]

I did a little research on raid 0, it seems to offer very little extra performance tbh

I think I will just get a small very fast drive for windows and aps, and then just gem a few larger drives.

Greg - As for video editting, mostly just messing around at the moment. I only recently started to do it, but its one reason I upgraded to quad. I was getting bored waiting for the encoding want to start maybe doing it for web videos and the like eventually - as the company I work for do online learning. I might need to do videos eventually - so thought I may as well take it up now and learn about it