to RAID or not to RAID?

[Numode]

What will be better for performance?
2 x 76 Western Digital Raptor in RAID 0 and partioned to 2 drives or just leaving the 2 drives separate?

 

[amol]

no raid

 

[Baked]

Single 74GB Raptor for boot HD, 2nd large HD for storage.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Amol
no raid

yup not worth the trouble.

 

[ts3433]

RAID0 provides very little performance increase in a desktop environment and increases the risk of data failure. A single 74GB Raptor for OS/apps and a larger 7200RPM for storage is a very good recommendation.

 

[VTrider]

Originally posted by: ts3433
RAID0 provides very little performance increase in a desktop environment and increases the risk of data failure. A single 74GB Raptor for OS/apps and a larger 7200RPM for storage is a very good recommendation.

You will see a definate performance boost....lets say for 'video editing' for example. Now I don't want to see any of you RAID NAZIS say otherwise

And this whole 'over-rated' thing about data failure has been covered a millions times before.

 

[Numode]

Thanks guys, now moving on...

I will be getting an Asus A8N SLI board. If I don't connect the drives via RAID will I still need to install the RAID drivers with a fresh install of WINXP? (pressing F6 during install)