well the speed is all depended on how good the controller and drives are,
personally i have a 2x160 raid 0 array, using maxtor 8mb cache, running on
the promise raid controller on the PC-DL Deluxe board and i only manage to
get about 40mb/s of sustained data rate. On my last mobo with a highpoint
raid controller this was closer to 60mb/s using the same disks.

I would do some research first on the controllers.

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"me!!" wrote in message
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Im going to replace my IDE hdds with serial ata drives. My motherboard
supports serial ATA RAID so am i better off getting one big 160Gb
drive ( cheaper option ) or getting 2 seperate 80Gb drives and running
them in raid 0?

Will it be any quicker with the raid 0 setup?

Thanks

Paul


Everything I have read says that you'll see better speed from 2 80's
running
in raid 0..
That's how I am planning on doing my next build so maybee you can tell me
how it works out