To RAID or not to RAID?

[Guitarman0]

I have 2 identical WD black caviars (500GB) and I am contemplating weather to put them into RAID 0 or not. I have a separate seagate drive which I could back up onto but I need the 1TB so RAID 1 is ruled out (as either way I want to use the seagate as a backup). I am using my PC for mainly gaming and amateur video editing. Do you guys think I should do it or not?

P.s. if you have had a good/bad experience with RAID0 before please leave a post

 

[Guitarman0]

Give it a go. All you have to loose is an evening of testing!

I have been using RAID0 for about a year and a half (now on 3 x 500 Seagate 7200.12 drives) and I have been most impressed so far. Very fast, will try to do some benching this evening. As long as you are aware if one of your dies, thats the whole data set gone!

As soon as you went RAID did you notice a performance boot straight away?

Thanks for the info!