Velociraptor raid 0?

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can i run 2 Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD5000HHTZ 500GB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive in raid? at $150 a piece would there be any advantage to having 2 of them in raid over using just one ssd? also, what is the difference between the colors of western digital hard drives? im looking for a pair of harddrives to put into raid to store movies/music/tv shows (unless its would be better just to use one bigger drive like a 1tb or 2tb). i have heard from different people that the harddrives over 500gb dont last as long as the harddrives under 500gb. im not sure if its true .....

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won't be as fast as an SSD, but near the same performace, but more storage

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i really just want to store a bit of totally legit movies and music, but i also want it to last.

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I can't recommend Raptors for RAID. especially not RAID 0. If you want speed and durability for large storage I'd have to recommend WD RE4 drives, 4 of them 500GB in RAID 0+1. It will give you RAID 0 speed, 1TB of storage but also redundancy if one of the drives fails. You can buy them for $90 each right now, that's pretty cheap for enterprise grade HDDs.

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Raid 5 is your friend.