Question about SSDs in raid configurations.

[ElectronDF]

Just my 2c. Sorry I can't help much. But I swear by Raid 0. I love it and wouldn't do anything else but. I used normal 7200's (RPM) until I got a better job and then got WD Raptors (10K RPM). Then I outgrew them since they were only 36GB each. I got the 150GB's and loved it. But then 2 weeks ago, the raid controller on my MB went out. It is sucky, but not so bad, I had backups, and the MB is like 3 years old. It shouldn't have happened, but oh well. It killed one of my HDs in the process. Okay, so the HD has a 5 year warranty, that is covered. I get 2 new 7200's to cover until I can get a new 10K. But it wouldn't work. Come to find out it was the raid controller. /sigh

I used the 7200's connected to my normal SATA bus, but Win 7 hated that I went from a raid to a normal and on top of that, I went from IDE (CD-Roms) to AHCI (don't ask what that is). I would boot up to loading hardware and then blue screen, and simule-reboot so I couldn't read the blue screen. /cry I got an 64GB SSD for OS and 128GB SSD for games. Going to put them on normal unraided SATA. It isn't what I want (raided 10K drives or raided SSDs), but I will live with it until new processors come out that makes me want to change motherboards. Then this board will get pushed down the food chain (I 5 computer-box).

If you understand how to deal with going from a normal drive to a raid and back and you don't mind crazy speed, then I would go with raiding. If you just want something to work without fiddling with it, I would just get an SSD for OS or gaming and then get a big normal drive to store stuff on.