[windows_sucks]

ok..so doing post production work...any of you think that configuring 2 hard drives in a raid 0 format would be beneficial in any way what so ever...when I was doing post production work on a windows I never had my hard drives in any raid configuration....sorry i am not to familiar with raids...i'd like to keep the hard drives the way they are right now...
but configuring two 320GB hard drives in Raid 0 and keeping a 750GB for storage/backup purposes is what going to make my post production time less time consuming then I don't mind one bit doing that..

[mduell]

Hardware RAID? Sure if you really need the bandwidth.
Software RAID? If you can't afford hardware RAID and need the bandwidth.

I'd go with fast drives (like 10000RPM Western Digital Raptors) rather than RAID.

[k2director]

Faster hard drives (10Krpm) don't have the storage capacity of 7200 rpm drives, which make them not-so-ideal for handling much video...

I have a software raid right now, consisting of 2 300 GB Maxtor drives (installed in bay 2 and 3 of my Mac Pro). I have this raided drive set up as my scratch disk for Final Cut, and keep all my media on it. Final Cut is definitely more responsive when working with this raid, as opposed to working with media on a non-raided drive. I say go for it, just make sure you back up on a regular basis.

[OreoCookie]

10k drives won't have a faster throughput than a RAID0 of 7.2k drives, you want a 10k drive when seek times are important (i. e. you access many small files or run a large database). So you'll have better performance with a RAID0 of two 7.2k drives than with a single 10k harddrive.