What you are doing in UO at the moment?

[Cirno]

The whole point of RAID is not having to reinstall after a drive failure.

Not all RAID types.
The purpose of RAID 0 is to increase read/write rates, however if even a single drive in a RAID 0 array fails, the data across the entire array is lost.

 

[Barok]

That's what I meant. RAID 0 is a waste. You are paying for all those drives, use them properly!

 

[NuSair]

That's what I meant. RAID 0 is a waste. You are paying for all those drives, use them properly!

For my set up, they are perfect. I keep all the files I need backed up on an external.

Running a RAID 1 across 2 drives is useless on my machine.

 

[Cirno]

That's what I meant. RAID 0 is a waste. You are paying for all those drives, use them properly!

You still get full capacity from all the drives (I think assuming they're all the same size), and get significant read/write increases.
Depending on how you look at it, you could argue that you're getting more use out of them that way that sacrificing capacity for fault tolerance.
Also, some things benefit greatly from higher transfer rates.

 

[NuSair]

You still get full capacity from all the drives (I think assuming they're all the same size), and get significant read/write increases.
Depending on how you look at it, you could argue that you're getting more use out of them that way that sacrificing capacity for fault tolerance.
Also, some things benefit greatly from higher transfer rates.

Yep, 2 150G WD Raptors. Makes for a fast system.

 

[Cloak&Dagger]

You still get full capacity from all the drives (I think assuming they're all the same size), and get significant read/write increases.
Depending on how you look at it, you could argue that you're getting more use out of them that way that sacrificing capacity for fault tolerance.
Also, some things benefit greatly from higher transfer rates.

Even if they are not the same size you get the capacity, but over all yes this whole thing is true. Usually people tend to just use an SSD for things that benefit from a higher transfer rate, and use normal HDD for things less important to them, but if you are the type of person who see's speed improvements everywhere they look then RAID 0 would be the way to go regardless of the situation. I also find other RAID types useless since most of my computer is backed-up elsewhere than on my own machine (even with RAID 1 there are things that can happen to cause both HDD to fail, so RAID 1 would be useless. )