Is raid 0 worth it?

I will be purchaseding 2 new hard drive which one should I pick between this 2 hd?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136

and yeah the main question is worth it on raid 0?

I heard that it gives pratically no performance increase.

Only needed if you want to make two identical hard drives act as one big one

The main answer for the past three years has been NO. AnandTech ran benchmarks in all of the games of 2005, or 2004, forget which, in RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and I don't recall if any more than that (Edited in -- thank you to Anna for the link to the AT article that I just mentioned -- see below).

RAID doesn't speed up disk access speed for game-size files at all. It actually is SLOWER than running a well-defragged single drive. The main benefit of RAID 0 is for very, VERY large files, such as video editing generates, and those can be handled faster with RAID striped drives.

I will be purchaseding 2 new hard drive which one should I pick between this 2 hd?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148136

and yeah the main question is worth it on raid 0?

Metroid2006

The reviews on the Western Digital look better. I'd go with that even though you get a five year warranty on the Seagate. If anything happens to your drive after three years (WD warranty), you'll need more space by then.

Also, RAID 0 does not offer very much improvement and usually is more trouble than it's worth. If you use your motherboard as a RAID controller and switch motherboards at some point, your hard drives might no longer be readable. You'll also lose everything on both drives if one of them fails. It's a big hassle for very, very little gain.

The best performance boost would be with a faster (10000 RPM or greater) drive.

I've noticed a huge difference in going from a single drive to RAID. In fact, I wouldn't even bother with a non-RAID system, because everything just loads so much faster now with it.codezer0

[QUOTE="codezer0"]I've noticed a huge difference in going from a single drive to RAID. In fact, I wouldn't even bother with a non-RAID system, because everything just loads so much faster now with it.Metroid2006