ukbobboy01
To the average user 0-Raid SATA will give you about a 10% gain in your benchmark score which will relate to your computer opening web pages and such about 20% faster it will greatly improve multitasking. If you are like me and do photo editing with large files say a 5mp Tiff photo using Adobe Photoshop CS you will be amazed at how much faster it is it seems to be about 100% faster due to the ability to wright to the hard drives twice as fast.
I use 2-Fujitsu 74GB 15K rpm ULTRA 320 SCSI hard drives in 0-Raid and I have a AMD64 3200+ with stock hard drives it benches about the same as a Intel P4 2.3GHz.
Set to 0-Raid with the SCSI it benches at the same as a P4 3.2GHz
When I overclock my CPU 15% I can out preform a P4 4GHz processor with a 3200+ which stock operating speed is 2GHz.
I do not know if you have ever played Half Life 2 or not but if you have the water in it looks pretty real with a normal set up on my computer. But when I went to 0-Raid it looks like if you touch the screen you hand will get wet. The ability to write twice as fast to the hard drive makes quite a bit of difference when you are running applications that require large data transfers but to the average user they probably would not notice that much of a difference.
A person would have to weigh the cost of setting up a raid configuration verses there needs. I went to the max with mine and bought most of my components on E-Bay. It took a while to get the components but I saved allot of $$$ but it still cost me about $500 to do it. But to me it was worth it.
One other thing I noticed was when I ran a single 7200rpm Hard drive I downloaded the Windows 64 Beta OS it took about 40 minutes 300Kbs from Microsoft.com after I installed 0-Raid it took about 15 at 700KBs and I used to DL from LW at about 250KBs and now I can consistently DL at 700KBs. I do not know if this is due to the 0-Raid or not.
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