Raid-0 or Nothing

[Mortankas]

Hello all,

I've tried my best by searching the forums for an answer to this question but to no avail, if somehow i've still missed it, i apologize.

I've recently decided to purchase 2 x Western Digital Raptor 74GB HDD's, would it be beneficial to place these drives into a RAID-0 array? Or would i be better off just leaving them both as seperarate drives.

Many Thanks.

*EDIT*

Never mind this one folks, i've just read up in some other threads that these raptors don't half perform what the hype states, nevermind :(

[defakto]

Um, the 74 gig raptors do perform up to the "hype" it's the raid 0 that doesn't perform up to it.

[Mortankas]

So it's the RAID-0 that's causing these people to get these unexpectedly low results in their benchmarking programs with their raptors?

[defakto]

The unexpected low results are for people who bought teh 36 gig raptors, which are significantly slower than the 74.

I know my 74's post average read speeds of 60+ m/ second under no load, not sure how they'd do under heavy load, but they are designed for Heavy IO loads, not desktop usage.

[Mortankas]

Ok that's good to hear :) Thanks alot for taking the time to answer my thread!

Regards

Mort