Many motherboards these days have built-in RAID controllers, and performance enthusiasts have assumed that two striped hard drives would perform better than one. However, Anandtech has a good article that proves this assumption is false. This corroborates with findings by the well-respected StorageReview.com site. Overclockers.com explains why there is negligible advantage to use RAID 0 for a desktop environment here.
RAID 0 = Negligible Advantage
Posted - 07/03/2004 : 1:35:57 PM
