Raid 0 VS 10k Raptor Drive

For gaming your hard drive doesn't matter much. Load times and such will all be within a couple seconds using any modern drive in any RAID configuration. Your HD simply isn't accessed enough while gaming for it to make a huge difference.

As far as sequential transfer rates, two of those will be faster than a Raptor. As far as seek times, RAID 0 doesn't do anything for seek times, so it would be slower. That said, seek time doesn't matter for a single-user machine (i.e. not a server.) because the drive heads don't spend much time jumping all over the place.
 
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