is Raid really worth it?

[Splene]

ok, so im in a position to get a couple of 120gb sata150 drives that i could run in raid. my question is, right now im using a 8mb 250gb drive, will they offer much performance over the 250 i have? or should i just save the money?

[RS3RS]

I'm assuming you're talking about RAID 0. Generally for what most people do (games, the average household stuff, etc.), RAID 0 really doesn't offer much of a performance increase.

If you want a performance increase, I would get a 36 or 74 GB Western Digital 10,000 RPM "Raptor" hard drive. Will most likely serve you better than RAID 0 will.

Plus, with RAID 0, you double your chances of losing data to a hard drive failure (if one hard drive dies, your data is gone, completely. You have to format your other hard drive too, as the data on it is not recoverable).

Hope that helped some :)

[DevilDoc]

Save the $. Unless you're doing data intensive stuff like PSing huge files, video editing, or live database management from your own PC then I'd say go for it.

[zlooop]

not worth it for the performance... .if you want it for hte backup, depends on how valuable your data is

[Splene]

cool, thanks guys..i kinda figured the price/performance ratio wasbt worth it. besides i got a 6800, a64 3000 and the current drive running off a 200w sparkle matx psu...dont need to cause any problems.