1 To inside my PowerMac G5 Dual-Core: RAID 0 or not ?

Hello,
I would like to know if I owe formate my hards disks (2x500 Go) in RAID 0. Which are the advantages of RAID 0 for Final Cut Pro ? Really faster and powerful ? Moreover separate the capture scratch and render files on two differents disks accelerates really the performances of CPF ?
Thank in advance.

I have a 2 drive RAID 0 and actually startup off it as well use it for most of my editing. It works very well. I'm using 2 Western Digital 400GB SATA RAID Specific drives (Western Digital RE and Maxtor Maxline 3 drives are designed for RAIDs). The resulting volume is 800GB. My benchmarking utilities place the array's performance at almost exactly 2x the speed of one drive -- about 100MB/s. You will need a 3rd drive with OSX on it to create the volume, however once you've created it, you can just run the OSX installer as normal.
One negative aspect: If one of the drives fails, you will lose a all the data from both drives. With a 1 drive setup, you will only lose only the data on that particular drive, preserving the other drive. Consider a backup solution if you're serious about your work.
Another thing: The drive should be the same size and preferrably the same brand and model if you want to avoid problems.

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