Today, though, we’re going to show you how to set up a simple RAID setup. The only choice offered will be either RAID 0 (technically not RAID, but we’ll get to that shortly) or RAID 1.

I am currently setting up an audio sampling PC workstation and am interested in RAID 0. I am wondering if I go for RAID 0 with SSD's, and one fails, how easy are they to troubleshoot/detect? A ...

Two or more of Sandisk's Extreme II Hyper-Class 120GB SSD's and your Intel based motherboard is a cost effective way to experience RAID 0 bliss. Think of it as SLI for your storage.

An SSD upgrade will boost your PC's performance. Upgrading to two SSDs in RAID 0 will render it mind-bendingly fast.

This long-term and real-world test will allow us to see the impact for ourselves which should leave no more doubt in people’s minds about the effectiveness and costs of running an SSD RAID setup.

As such, and with a bit of that "Friday on our minds" attitude adjustment going on in the lab, we decided to RAID a pair of these SSDs up to see what they could do. Blinding speed in RAID 0 mode?

We test RAID 0 and RAID 5 arrays of the high-performance Intel DC S3700 series enterprise SSDs in 4-drive and 8-drive configurations.