I've already answered this question for myself, but there was a concise editorial posted yesterday at storagereview.com (http://www.storagereview.com) .

Well I gotta agree with the test results. In the real world where I use my RAID 0 I'd say overall performance boost is about 5-10 % depending upon the application and the sequential transfer rate not quite double. I know about the shortcomings of RAID 0 also.