Can you RAID HDDs

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Even in RAID (and while I understand your anger at the pricing, you don't need to be quite so expressive,) you're likely not to get near the performance of your SSD with a RAID array. SSDs really shine in that they can access any sector of their storage space in the same amount of time, and it takes fractions of the time that you spend waiting on data from a HDD. :p A RAID array might help, but I doubt it would be as significant an improvement as you might be hoping for. You will never get double the performance, but you can get double the likelihood of failure, with loss of data, if you choose the wrong RAID setup, and have no backup for your personal information stored on it.
Even in RAID (and while I understand your anger at the pricing, you don't need to be quite so expressive,) you're likely not to get near the performance of your SSD with a RAID array. SSDs really shine in that they can access any sector of their storage space in the same amount of time, and it takes fractions of the time that you spend waiting on data from a HDD. :p A RAID array might help, but I doubt it would be as significant an improvement as you might be hoping for. You will never get double the performance, but you can get double the likelihood of failure, with loss of data, if you choose the wrong RAID setup, and have no backup for your personal information stored on it.
 
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Well, RAID 0 generally fails when a drive goes bad, not as a result of the RAID itself going bad, although tinkering with the RAID configuration after it's setup can torpedo it. Since the data in RAID 0 is stored, half on each drive, a failure of either drive results in a loss of all data on both drives. The drive that didn't fail however, can be reused by repartitioning and formatting it, as though it were a new HDD.

Provided you keep decent backups of anything you consider important, there's really no harm in throwing your two 1 TB HDDs into a RAID 0 array. Expect to empty off both drives, however, so if they are cram packed full of things, you may need to find some temporary storage until you get your RAID array finished. A benefit of RAID 0 is that you should end up with the capacity of all included drives, combined. You won't be sacrificing large quantities of disk space or write time for any parity bits.