I looked long and hard at raid before bagging myself an ssd, and for gaming or general usage, raid is pointless. Comes down to access times. Raiding in an ideal situation means if you want a huge file, you get twice the speed, but once you start searching for data, which nearly everthing does, the benefit disappears- completley.
You are better paying twice as much for a single drive. Once both drives have spun up, and you are taking a continuous stream of data from them, raid is brilliant, real world this very rarely happens.
Case in point; 2x 300gb raptors; £366
Or
Intel X25-M (blows a raptor out the water)
Samsung 1tb f3 (real world, you would need a keen eye to notice this from a raptor- or raided raptors)- £236
People seem to have an issue with limited storage on an ssd, but if you think realistically, how many gb of info do you spend 80% of your time using?
I have a pretty big steam folder, but just store it all on the samsung. OS and core programmes are on a 30gb partition on the ssd. The rest of the ssd I use symlinks to copy games out of the steam folder, and onto the ssd. Investing a tad more as you cannot be short of a bob or two to spend that on storage, £50 more to raid the intel ssd- zip acess time and will cover 145 gig...then raid starts working...
Most gamers will only REALLY play three or so games, so the ssd deals with 90% of my gaming.
Raiding ssd's is a goer, because access times are non existent, but with platter hds you are just too limited by seek times.
As is if stuck with a raptor, I would just leave it, no gamer needs raid unless he got it before the advent of ssd.
