“striped Raid” Set Up For Sample Libraries Options

[Milca]

Hey guys
I’m planning to buy dual bay “hot-swap” enclosure SeriTek/1EN2
http://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-1en2 with PCI - X card
SeriTek/1VE2+2

and I want to try to take an advantage of raid 0 set up( two internal SATA HD - probably maxtor or hitachi around 200 GB) and with this issue I’m posting those questions - hopefully there is somebody with answers - otherwise I will have to research that stuff forever.

1) Let’s say that I have Kontakt 2 library on one hand and and couple of sample libraries on the other - would it be better to use
a) Kontakt 2 on one hard drive ( of my two bay enclosure) and other
libraries on the other HD. or
b) Strip my libraries libraries across two drives ?(maybe with us of partitions)

2)This question is more of a general kind about stripped RAID

I know that lot of people take advantage of stripped RAID set up but this particular article
http://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.ph...gleDriveVsRaid0

has made some doubts whether I should even bother with this set up .
Anybody has some experience with using RAID 0?

3) For those who supports this set up where would be smarter to use it ( if you have a one choice)
a) On two sample libraries drives ?
b) On two audio drives ?
c) Or on two boot drives ?

If you guys have any experience with that i would really appreciate your answers,Hopefully other people find it useful as well.
Thanks for your time
Milan

[Milca]

Thanks a lot again
Your answers make a lot of sence.I ( as well ) kind of thought that depends on the kind and style of production - as you've mentioned - how much samples and audio will I have.

Anyways after long long time of researching I was gonna finally make purchase and finalize my up which
int. 1 - boot drive - Raptor 150 GB
int. 2 - audio - Seagate Barracuda 320 GB
ext. 1,2 - samples - 2 bay “hot-swap” enclosure SeriTek/2N2 with two SATA drives
ext .3 - maxtor 300 GB for back up ( which I already have )
I was pretty sure about this purchase but after spending about an hour on phone with Firmtek tech support I was again at point zero and had to rethink my purchase.
Very frustrating.
Since I’m posting this in the separate post since this is a new issue.
http://en.440forums.com/forums/?site440=ma...showtopic=34841
Hopefully this is all right forum rules.I pretty sure other guys might be interested in that too.
Anyways once again
Thanks for your opinion .
Milan