Hard drive formatting question

Originally Posted by www.sega.co.jp

Actually that's only as risky as using a single drive, the advantage is it's much faster and lumps the HDD space into one large 'drive'. If you use a single drive for all your important data, RAID 0 isn't any more dangerous than the common single drive setup (I know I was being redundant, but I wanted to drive my point in).

While I am unsure of the performance benefits on either side of the argument, RAID-0 over two drives is a nice way to make sure that you don't have fault tolerancy. If one drive in the set dies, goodbye everything: any added speed is not worth the chance of losing everything in the event of a singly drive failure. (Unless, of course, that speed is enough to overcome all other transfer methods, which I doubt.)

Jam it back in, in the dark.