Performance
Well guys, I've always worked with RAID arrays at work but never really thought that I would (could afford) want one at home since SCSI disks are too expensive and IDE's just don't give you that much performance
until...
Western Digital released their new hot RAPTOR line of drives running at 10.000 rpm, SATA 150. (No, I don't work for WD, not even close). I searched the internet about these drives and only found positive responses, the first drive was a 36 gb., which just isn't big enough for today's standards.
Anyhow, I ordered 2 of the big brothers (74 GB) and now have them in a RAID - 2 x 74 = 148 (in reality only 168 GB). They are just nice nice nice nice, I want to explain one thing here, your performance improvement in a RAID yeah, could be something between 20% to 50%... but if you get a Raptor, bear with me, and set it up as your system drive, Windows loads faster, all your programs load faster because of the improved access time, I do some heavy programming and compiling and also play games, and can really feel the difference in anything I do.
Burn me for what I write if you please but before, go and read about these drives. (Ahh ok, they cost a little more per GB, but who needs 250 Gb space? anyways, if you do, set the Raptors as your System drive and install all your heavy applications, games etc. there, and use an inexpensive 250 Gb for your files, porns, etc.)
Cheers boyz