SATA2 VS Raptor VS RAID0

[IA64]

I am thinking of changing my HDD setup. As you know HDD is the slowest thing in your PC. Solid-state drives are not available yet in Lebanon and too expensive.

The question is does it worth ? Performance wise I would like to know which is faster as a primariy/logical drive between :

1- 1TB SATA2 7200RPM 32MB cache
2- 2 x 1TB SATA2 7200RPM 32MB cache RAID 0
3- Western Digital Raptor 10,000RPM SATA

I read on different forums different results so any personal experience/comment would be appreciated.

[Kingroudy]

the velociRaptor is extremely fast and used in Alienware computers. a RAID0 setup could be faster, but more expensive.

[IA64]

I think I will just wait few weeks and get 2 SSD in RAID0 /AID because no redundancy here.

[orange infection]

shou ye3neh redundancy ?? is it compresion?
and what's solid state ??
when i was about to buy my laptop , ata3 3layyeh solid state LOL , it's madly expensive
32 gb ssd are more expensive than 1 TB of regular hard disk

[IA64]

Originally Posted by orange infection

shou ye3neh redundancy ?? is it compresion?
and what's solid state ??
when i was about to buy my laptop , ata3 3layyeh solid state LOL , it's madly expensive
32 gb ssd are more expensive than 1 TB of regular hard disk

I am sorry for being unable to explain the above as they take too much time but a good detailed explanation is found here :

Redundancy in RAID1 : RAID - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

About SSD, check that : Solid-state drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hope it helps, cheers.