I never said the boom factor was limited to raid 0, however it raises the chance of a drive failure quite a bit, 2 drives are 2 times as likely to fail, 3 drives are 3 times as likely to fail, and so forth. And raid 10(or 01... whatever the hell it is) that you describe is insanely expensive.

Drive failure is something that is not uncommon in my household, (both WD and Seagate, as thats what we usually get) so my uneasiness about drive failure is founded.

Although SSD raid 0 looks interesting to me as there failure rate is so small, and SSD raid 0 is alot more noticeable then HDD 10k(or hell even 15k) raid 0
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...rive,2775.html