Quote Originally Posted by GamingDaemon View Post
Not that this thread is about RAID, but there certainly has been quite the discussion about it here recently. So now my curiosity is piqued. I'm happy with my 1 SATA2 320GB HD, but was wondering just how much speed improvement I would see if I went to RAID 0, and is it worth it? i know that the only real bottleneck I have no is my disc speed, so how much would it help?

Anandtech did a great article about a year ago that investigated the "speed improvements" of running RAID 0 vs. running a single drive. They looked at the high speed WD Raptor 15K discs and put them against slower drives like the 7200RPM Seagate Barricudas.

The result? Virtually ZERO speed improvements with RAID 0 in games or regular windows applications.

So unless your box is running a web server or database, I would recommend that if anything you go to RAID 1 so that you have a little extra insurance in the event a drive goes out on you.