claycad

wow, that was a confusing read...I think it brings me more questions then answers. Do I interpret this correctly?

So it would use a small amount of CPU resources to run the RAID software, right? That shouldn't be a problem. I have an AMD x2 6000, so I can spare a little bit of my CPU.

To get peak performance I need fast busses (that means the speed that data travels from my HDD to the CPU to the RAM, am I close to being right?) the faster the less data congestion, right? my CPU has a 2000MHz HT, HDD is SATA II 3GB/s 32MB cache, RAM is 3GB 667MHz.

The wiki page says that RAID 0 has increase performance, but doesn't explain how much I would see. Given the specs above, is there a way to determine how much increased speed I would get when opening huge project files?

Also, would I have to set up the RAID 0 before installing my OS or can it be set up after the OS is already installed on one drive?

Thanks for the help.

EDIT: also, my motherboard has a RAID controller built into it, I have to go into the BIOS to set up the RAID configuration. Would that be considered hardware or software based RAID? I'm assuming hardware.