I split my raid 0 set up around a month ago and have only just rebuilt it. That was long enough to get used to how a single drive performed and having gone back to raid 0 I have noticed zero difference. Now that drives are getting bigger I don’t see the point in raid 0 for desktop use, although I know some people say they see the difference. I’d be interested to know where the differences become obvious, cos I just don't see it with my usuage patten.

I'd also like to see if the slightly better performance of a bigger drive gives any benifit in real life. A 160GB G2 is technically slightly faster that a 80GB G2 plus the data/ free space ratio is likely to be better on bigger drives so I'm wondering if a 160Gb drive would actually be better than two 80Gb in raid 0?