In the days before hard drives became very fast Raid 0 was used to provide extra performance improvements for people like myself who used them for gaming / number crunching / performance testing / willy waving etc.
They were known for collapsing and stressing the user out but certainly good for performance. Drives being so fast these days they are seldom used.

Edited by busterboy (Thu 19-Mar-20 17:14:56)

Yup, I had a RAID 0 setup back in the early noughties. A couple of IBM Deskstar 60gxps. Now one or two of you might already guess the results, given the product mentioned. Suffice it to say, something went phut, and both drives and the drive controller went with it (new motherboard).

I've not considered RAID 0 for a long time, but the idea of two NVME sticks joined to give me a 4TB extra-speedy RAID 0 volume is rather tempting. I could have the system boot in 3 seconds instead of 4.

In reply to a post by camieabz:

I've not considered RAID 0 for a long time, but the idea of two NVME sticks joined to give me a 4TB extra-speedy RAID 0 volume is rather tempting. I could have the system boot in 3 seconds instead of 4.

Trust me I have had the very same wicked thoughts.