Raid or not to raid

There is generally no real world(vs. synthetic transfer rate benchmarks) performance advantage to raid of any kind.
Go to www.storagereview.com for a good tutorial on raid,
and some application benchmarks. There are some specific applications that will benefit, but
gaming is not one of them. Even if you have an application which reads one input file sequentially, and writes
it out, you will perform about as well by putting the input on one drive, and the output on the other.

Well from my experience with my 2 raptors over what I previously had before. Its a big jump and worth every penny in my book. I had 2 Sata 7200 120 Gb in Raid 0 before then I decided to go with 2 150 Gb Raptors to replace my aging first gen drives with the rest of my upgrades and saw a huge difference in load times. There is no doubt that they are faster in game loads, Ive seen the difference. Very happy with my decision even though the cost/capacity ratio sucks plus bragging rights at Lan parties,lol....pic below

@soldier37, Is there any way to tell how much of the gain you saw was from raid-0 vs. the change to the raptors? The 150gb raptors are, by themselves much faster than 7200rpm drives.