How reliable is ATA RAID?

[ahsia]

I am think about running RAID 0 on my ABIT KT7, and I was wondering how reliable is it? I have read up on RAID 0, 1, and 0+1, and the benefits of each. I just wanted to get some opinion on feedback on how well it works, and do people have problems with them. I am personally planning to run RAID 0 and strip two 60gb drives to get 120gb. I currently have two 30 gb drives, and I can't believe I am running out of space. I think 120gb should last me a while... hehe... =)

Any feedback is greatly appreciated....

 

[sohcrates]

well, reliability isn't really increased with RAID until you get to mirroring. all you're really improving are seek and sometimes write times.

so for RAID 1 and 0+1, the real question is: how reliable is using a RAID card as your ide controller. i'd say you shouldn't have any worries. though, by spreading your data across 2 disks, one disk failure could make the data on both drives irrecoverable. but the advantages of RAID outweigh the chances of failure IMHO

 

[Desmoquattro]

two drives doesnt mean that the MTBF on both drives will be doubled...i think it just comes out to one drive. so its practically just like that...having one drive. but i must admit that the thought of one driving failing and screwing the array is pretty scary. oh well...i've had raid 0 for almost half a year now and no problems yet. *knock on wood*