Does Anyone Recommend Raid 0?

[Waco]

RAID-0 on standard magnetic hdd's scale the same as SSD's since both use the same interface (both run on SATA II interface at this time). SSD's will eventually replace magnetic drives, and of course flash memory is much faster (nanoseconds) when it comes to access times than magnetic hdd's (milliseconds), but the interface is still the bottleneck, which in turn limits SSD's to being barely better than magnetic drives until you factor in the cost...and see that magnetic drives still triumph.

SATA-IO is certainly not the limiting factor. Access times are killer for standard drives...SSDs don't fall to the same problems. SSDs do scale nearly linearly even on cheap motherboard RAID controllers, you actually get a very tangible difference in overall speed and not simply sustained read/write speeds. On expensive hardware RAID controllers the scaling is even better. I don't know why you'd point a finger at the interface...it clearly isn't a problem.