Hi, I am thinking of setting up RAID 0 on my upcoming computer to boost up the speed. However I have some worries. On tech-report.com there is a guide on RAID (http://www.tech-report.com/reviews/2001q2/realraid/index.x?pg=1), it says that if you set up two HDs in RAID 0 you will gain significant boost but yet you will loose your MTTF (Mean Time Between Failures). According to them the lifespan of your HDs will go down to 2-3 years! Is this true? I wanted to build a computer that would last me much longer then 3 years. Also, If I would consider to do RAID what would be a perfect hard drive to use, somethign not too expensive since I have to get two of them? Thank you.

raid 0 is worth the extra speed if your doing some major hard drive accessing such as video editing. For a game PC it may increase performance some but not a huge deal. Remember in a stripe set if one drive dies you lose it all! If your going to use RAID 0 I would recomend backing up everyweek to another device, or setting up a raid 0/mirror. Yes now thats 3-4 hard drives. With some of todays HD's like the ATA100/ATA133 drives with 8MB cashe on the drive I really dont think its worth it unless your setting up a file server or doing some major HD accessing.