hard drive/raid clarification please

[clayman]

I have/had one Western Digital 80Gig 8meg cache HD (which has turned out to be a piece of junk so im hoping the replacement will be better) and since i do alot of video capping, i am going to get another drive just for that purpose.

I was thinking about getting a seagate barracuda tomorrow - either 1 x 80gig or 2x40gig (if they make them)
Would i get much benefit from using a raid setup? Im only getting 1 extra drive now, and another when i can afford it, but I thought i read somewhere that the barracudas didnt do well with raid? is this true?

If so, would maxtor be a better choice?

Am i thinking along the right lines here by getting a raid setup happening? or would it be just as efficient to go with the one dedicated capture drive?

Thanks for reading. Help would be great

 

[smp]

If you want to do raid you'd want to do striping (raid0 I think) .. I'm not sure if you can stripe two different drives, so having a WD and a Cuda probably won't work .. I could be wrong though. You're better off getting another WD drive and from what I've been hearing they are excellent drives. Don't let that one bad experience mar that drive for you.... just bad luck that's all.

edit: you should be able to capture just fine on a single drive btw ...