Small HD Raid 0 vs 1Tb drive for performance?

[OBLIVIONLORD]

Does anyone here think that a 1TB 7200RPM 32mb Cache HDD would be slower than 2 320gb 7200RPM 16mb Cache drives of the exact model in RAID 0? If so.. how much slower?

Thanks

[EchoTheDolphin]

Generally speaking the RAID 0 drives will have a much higher throughput but possibly a higher seek time than the 1TB drives. Just depends on what you'll be doing with it mostly.

[Dapman02]

With larger files, RAID 0 is better than a higher density disk (the 1 tb) with smaller files (ala gaming and the likes) the terabite drive is better.

[OBLIVIONLORD]

How exactly can seek times be increased in a RAID0 if it's all dependent on the slowest drive's speed?

[thideras]

How exactly can seek times be increased in a RAID0 if it's all dependent on the slowest drive's speed?RAID0 actually increases seek times. ;)

EDIT: Didn't answer how, let me try to find the thread.

[OBLIVIONLORD]

I believe I found the best answer to this...

http://www.hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1027681540&postcount=34

That post came from this thread if you want to read into all the details...

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=887154