RAID 0 and its Performance

The Overclocker Cafe' just posted a brief article on RAID 0 (striping) and what performance benefits it has over a regularly set up drives. Several graphs are there to help illustrate their point. Here is a snip of the review.

Recently, following the review of two AOpen Athlon 64 mainboards that supported RAID, it occurred to me that I understood the basics of RAID but had never run one before. In doing some online searches, I couldn't find any benchmarks to show what if any measurable performance benefits there are. With that said, let me take an opportunity to quickly cover what RAID is, what it can do for you and give you some hard numbers to see.

Have a look