Is SATA Raid 0 worth it? I've read at some other boards that its a real performance booster for video editing but i dont do or intend to do any video editing. This machine is purely for gaming and downloading. My Current specs are below. Will there be any significant increase in performance in terms of gaming. I play stuff like C&C Generals, Final Fantasy XI, Jedi Academy. here's the place where i might go buy my hardware prices are in CND http://www.pcvillagecanada.com/Hardware.asp?cat=HDD Intel P4 2.6 @ 3.2 1GHz FSB Asus P4P800 2x256 Kingston DDR400 ATi Radeon 9800Pro 128MB Pri Master: Maxtor 60GB Pri Slave: WD 160GB Sec Master: Sony DRU510a DVD Burner Sec Slave: DVD-Rom

"Will there be any significant increase in performance in terms of gaming" during the game, none at all. But the four seconds you wait to load the game after clicking it will be reduced to two.

Unless you keep good backups or don't care about your data, RAID 0 isn't worth the risk, in my opinion. Double the speed, double your chance of losing everything.

dont really care about the data on my C drive - i guess i'll just buy 1 huge SATA drive and use it as another slave drive Money not an issue? Where do you live and when are you not home? I'm not gonna rob you, I'm just gonna steal some stuff

I think it's worth it, but your mileage may vary. I love it when I'm doing video editing or copying huge files... but other than that, I really don't see the difference outside of application load times and faster HDD I/O times on large reads/writes. I would never trust a striping array with important data. I have two 36GB Raptors in a striping array--I run my OS from that array, and I use it for high speed HDD stuff. All my important data is stored on other hard drives, though.

I have 2 80GB SATA in RAID 0 and found it gave a liitle bit extar perfromance but not anywhere near the perfomance increase I was expecting. More importantly I have a 120 GB IDE HD to back up all my important info to as although I have had no probs from the SATA's I just dont want ot take the rick with my data. Eli

"dont really care about the data on my C drive" What? Are you kidding? So how do you think you boot your system? Raid0 is fine for any drive OTHER than c:. For those of us who don't rebuild our systems daily its a good thing to keep the primary active partition alive and in good health. I have found a single 7200 rpm drive out performs two striped 5200rmp drives and I have half the risk of failure compared to two drives. You choice bud but just don't make your pc a FORD [fix or repair daily]