what do you reckon?

The Maxtor disk you've linked to is pretty slow in comparison to the latest drives so even with 4 in RAID0 you're not going get a sustained transfer rate much in excess of that with a pair of 7200.10s or AAKS drives will give you. Then there's the reliability issue, I wouldn't put one Maxtor in RAID0, let alone 4.

The Raptor won't be able to keep up with any form of RAID0 array in terms of out and out transfer speeds but it has a much faster random access time than any 7200rpm disk and that's the one thing you can't improve with RAID.

So it really comes down to what you want to do with the drive(s). The Raptor will offer better performance if you're dealing with a lot of small files scattered over the whole disk. The RAID array will be faster working with big files or contiguous groups of smaller files.
 
I am running a pair of those in RAID-0 now, just installed windows on it etc.

Seem to runs very fast, did a couple of benchies and quite happy with the performance increase over a single SATA I drive:

RAID-0


SATA I


Hope this helps
 
all looks fairly impressive. literaly double the average transfer speeds and access times arent that much different either. although what i never realised (or bothered thinking about) is the cpu usage with the raid - does that increase with the amount of drives you have in an array? also, is that the difference between a hardware raid and a hyberid / software raid?
 
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