Raid 0 for 74 GB Raptor?

Howdy. I'm thinking about wiping and reinstalling Win 7, and am considering setting up a raid for my two Raptors. Right now, I use one as the OS drive, and have a complete backup on the second drive. I don't need the extra space, so this is purely for performance.

Do you think the performance increase just in OS operations would be substantial enough to justify that or would you just keep them seperate?

Howdy. I'm thinking about wiping and reinstalling Win 7, and am considering setting up a raid for my two Raptors. Right now, I use one as the OS drive, and have a complete backup on the second drive. I don't need the extra space, so this is purely for performance.

Do you think the performance increase just in OS operations would be substantial enough to justify that or would you just keep them seperate?

guynamedbilly

meh, get a 60GB SSD for 100 bucks.

It all depends if you have any important info worth saving, and since you have a backup perhaps you do. Since raid 0 splits the data, if one fails you lose everything. So if your willing to give up the backup, sure go for it, dont expect a huge difference though.

It all depends if you have any important info worth saving, and since you have a backup perhaps you do. Since raid 0 splits the data, if one fails you lose everything. So if your willing to give up the backup, sure go for it, dont expect a huge difference though.

Azurites

This.

The true performance boost you get from RAID is with a dedicated controller card with tons of cache.

Ive recently Raid 0 two 300gb Raptors and the speed increase was pretty noticeable.