Fastest SATA drives in RAID 0.

[navecko]

This will be my first system with RAID. I would like to transfer more data from permanant storage to RAM in less time [RAID 0]. I have researched some drives and am not sure which ones to get. I thought the 10,000rpm WD Raptors were the fastest SATA drives. Then I read a confusing article here about how Maxtor DiamondMax 10 7,200rpm drives with NCQ were faster in RAID 0 than the Raptors even though they spin slower. It seemed that they were compairing 3 DiamondMax 10 hard drives to only 2 Raptors. So I am asking what drives would you buy for the fastest two drive RAID 0 setup [not SCSI]?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

RAID 0 gives you very little to NO performance benefit, trust me. I'm running it right now and am very disappointed

 

[navecko]

Maybe I'll just go with one raptor.

 

[Porter21]

I have a raptor. A 36gb. Personally if it were me, I would just go ahead and spend the extra money spent on those sata 10000 rpm drives on large sata hard-drives such as a 500gb or 300gb. I have a raptor, 80gb wd, and an 8gb seagate(only family pics) and I would much rather have more storage then anything else.