... solutions to problems which DON'T EXIST?
It seems quite plausible to me that the OP wasn't lying, and thus that his disk->RAM transfer times would be reduced by (1) reducing hard drive seek time and (2) boosting hard drive sustained transfer rate.
...Honestly, RAID 0 is for idiots, fools and wankers ONLY - with the only exception being Mission-Critical servers that do 200,000 transactions per minute.
I disagree. On modern desktop PCs, the biggest speed mismatch is between the glacially slow hard drive and the fast solid state components (RAM, CPU etc). Reducing hard drive access times and boosting sustained data transfer rates translates directly into noticeably shorter load/save times and a more responsive system.
..A domestic installation of RAID 0 (unless it is backed up onto a RAID 1 array) is by far the dumbest storage solution on the planet.
Given the reliability of modern hard drives, I disagree.
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Data safety is halved,
True, but half of an enormous number is still an enormous number, thus this is not a significant problem. Personally, I've never lost data due to a disk crash over the dozens of drives I've used; maybe I've just been lucky. In any case, external hard drives (for example) are so cheap that there's no excuse for not backing up any valuable data, so the objection is moot.
..speed IS NOT that much better;
False. Sustained hard drive <-> RAM throughput is roughly doubled, which should help out the OP's problem.
..power consumption goes up dramatically,
False. RAID 0 uses the same power as two non-RAIDed drives. RAID 1 roughly doubles power consumption over two non-RAIDed drives.
..noise and heat increases;
False (see above answer). RAID 1 boosts noise and heat.
..RAID 0 arrays can NOT be transferred between computers unless you are using a dedicated PCI card as your RAID controller
Straw man, not quite correct to boot. It's a simple matter to copy the data from the RAID 0 onto some other storage, then copy from there onto the new RAID 0 array. Presumably step 1 is already being done (i.e. backups).
Even if you want to "plug n play" the array, it *will work* between MBs using similar/identical chipset controllers in addition to using the plug-in controller option.
..(and given the maximum data rate on the PCI Bus is pathetic, as a speedy solution the PCI card option is limp.)
Even though this was a straw man, the PCI card approach probably does have enough bandwidth to handle the max throughput of one pair of Raptors; other buses such as PCI-express are also available.
.. if you want faster disk access buy yourself a single Raptor drive and install that
I agree - this will improve performance over a standard hard drive.
.. you will then have all the advantages of RAID 0 (speed)
As mentioned above, going to RAID 0 will improve the sustained data transfer rate substantially, which will directly address the OP's complaint.
... RAID 1 (cheap and reliable) or RAID 5 (bloody expensive but very reliable) -....
Actually, RAID 5 is much cheaper than RAID 1 per byte, and not much more expensive in absolute terms, because in RAID 1 1/2 of the drives are used for data integrity, while in RAID 5 only 1/n drives are used for data integrity.
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