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Came across this at coding horror Desktop RAID: oversold?. Though the articles listed make good points I’ll sav this of RAID 0, there is a notable increase in performance. I used to run two 40g ibms in RAID0 and large data like Anarchy Online and most games loaded A LOT faster. There is one caveat though, small files were either slower or unchanged. I’m talking about loading up 500+mb of data at once here. If your file is only 4k you’re not going to notice anything.

RAID0 is also somewhat stupid if you don’t have good backups. Lose one drive and you’re hosed. RAID10 (1+0) is smarter, you stripe and mirror. Slightly increased performance and a “live” backup at the same time.

Call me kooky,
Phosphers