Ide Raid 0 vs. a single SATA drive?

[Inigmatics]

I had my operating system setup on a single 120gig sata drive with a 200 gig ide storage drive, but I needed more space. So I got two 80 gig ide drives from a family member for free.

So I installed the 2 80 gigs in a raid 0 with my operating system on it and now my machine seems to be slower than the single sata drive.

I ran Sandra to get an idea of of my file read and write bandwidth and all my drives seem to be a lot slower than their sandra equvilants? Is this normal, or why are my drives running so slow?

My rig is
Athlon 64 3200
Asus k87n deluxe
2x 512 geil ddr 400
2x 80 gig western digital ide's
120 gig sata
200 gig maxtor ide
some combo drive maybe light on
and some dvd burner maybe samsung super multi drive I think
400watt antec power supply
and radeon 9800 pro 256mb.

[KoolDrew]

RAID-0 is worse for seek times since each drive has to seek to their portion of the data. This will be bad for small files and the OS is filled with small files. I highly doubt you are doing anything that would benefit much if at all from RAID-0 so I would suggest just forgetting about it. It also significantly reduces reliability.