A simple question.

It's never that simple. Two drives equals twice the chance something could go wrong (naysayers will whine about that but it's true), and RAID 0 on the desktop typically - note I'm saying typically is not worth the various performance benefits it may or may not give you. It's simply not for everyone. If you need speed and performance that bad, go save some money and get a Velociraptor or even an SLC-based SSD drive.

If it was me, I'd go for the two 500's but not in RAID 0. I'd get better overall system performance using them as two individual drives and get a pagefile on each. But then again, with 8GB of RAM and 6GB of that assigned to a RAMdisk, it's not like I give a shit about pagefiles... ;)

Regardless, having two independent drives in a system will offer better performance in multitasking and day to day usage than two drives as one using RAID <insert level here>.
 
Right now, i am running 2 x 160gb 8mb cache in raid0 with a 300gb in jbod. I use the raid 0 for gaming, and the 300gb for storage. I have external hdd's I use for backup due to a lot of travel and stuff... so back ups are not that important to me. Nothing to demanding here.
 
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