Quote Originally Posted by Parsous
If you have an actual raid controller (NOT an onboard MB one, they're almost always crap and while the performance is typically increased it's nowhere near a real controller) a raid-0 will have better read performance then a raid-1.
Not if you have an even number of drives (aka, 2)


Edit:
Talking about specifically gaming....
For gaming it's the access time that most important.

If you look at benchmarks, Raid 0 wins.
If you look at real life usage, it's so close to a tie that it is basically even.

If your doing 3d rendering(or whatever), thats another story.