4 X Corsair F40 vs. 2 Crucial c300 64gb

"..as I won't be putting much on the drives themselves except basic programs and my OS." => In this case you don't have much of a need to do a RAID config unless you want to do a mirror for redundancy. Newegg has the Corsair F40 drives for $100 ($400 for 4). It has the SandForce controller which is good! The Crucial SSD has a Marvell controller (not as fast as the Sanforce) and is $135 (yikes!) . For the money I would say go with a single 120GB SSD with a SandForce controller and call it good. OCZ Agility 2 series SSDs are good drives...

120 GB for $230 on Newegg => http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...

3 F60s would be good and will absolutely destory the performance of 2x any other SSDs.

The Crucial F60 has a SandForce controller (the F40 does not). Either that or the OCZ Agility 2 or OCZ Vertex 2 SSDs (again... just about anything with a SandForce controller).

Still stuck on not seeing the need for doing any type of RAID for the basic PC usage described...

Thanks for the replies. I guess I stated the "basic programs" part too bluntly. I need some room to work with would have been a better choice of words. I would like to put a few games on them as well. I guess what I'm getting at is that I don't want all my storage on these things, but I do want plenty of "wiggle" room.

I thought the corsair f series were sandforce based. At least they seem to scale well in RAID.