Dude, raid 0 can give you a 20 percent increase, but that's not nearly justifiable by the price of the raptor, there is no game that will need dual raptors in raid
it's not a static 20% it varies by use. if you load a ton of really small files, raid is almost worthless. if you have a media center with huge 2gb movies, then it nearly doubles drive performance. Due to raptors capacity/price though it is impractical to dedicate them to a media PC unless you ar rediculously rich and can afford a large array. I will agree with you, no game out today needs two in raid yet alone one(as opposed to say a cavier) I however have noticed the biggest diference, in general use and opening programs, PS opens a fair amount faster on my raptor.
Yes true, but if you spent the extra money you spent getting the raptor on say getting another gig of ram or better prossecor, you would notice a greater difference
Anyone have any sites that show the benchmarks of: Two 74GB Raptor's in RAID 0 vs. Raptor X or Two Raptor X's in RAID 0?
it also raises data failure rate exponentially, and doesn't improve performance too much when dealing with smaller files where the bootle neck is seek time, not drive speed. raptorX= WD1500 raptor http://techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/wd-raptorx/index.x?pg=1