It all depends on the level of raid you wich to use. First off, there should never be a consideration of data coruption as sonething normal. In the mass storage industry, this is considered the worst thing. It can happen, but is not a normal thing, or confined to one type of technology.
With raid, the tradeoffs are price vs. performance vs. loss of data. Raid was originally designed to be a way to lower the mean failure time of a logical disk. Hence the name RAID (Redundent Array of Inexpensive Disks). The concept behind levels 1-5 is that you can lose one disk, and still have full access to your data. This way, instead of one large disk, you could make up the same size with smaller disks and lower your mean time to failure.
For normal users, there are 3 levels of RAID to consider:
0) this will stripe data across two or more disks without any loss protection. This is the fastest RAID, and if you lose one disk, you tend to lose all data. This also has the highest risk of failure (there is a calculation you do that pretty much shows that for every disk you add, you increase the chance of a failure... makes sense, you have several moving parts now).
1) Disk mirroring. This treats two hard drives as one. When you write to the disk, to makes a copy of the data, and writes the same data to both disks. So writes are slower. Reads can be done from both disks (just like a two disk RAID 0), so reads are faster then a single disk. This also offers the protection of if one disk goes out, the other has all the data, and is still working. This is the most expensive RAID (2 disks for each logical disk), but is that fastest raid that offers protection for data loss.
5) Disk striping with parity. This is simular to RAID 0, in that is stripes data across two or more disks. The difference is that there is an extra disk that is used for parity (actually the parity can be spread across multiple disks). This also allows one disk to go out, and still allow full access to all data. The benifit here, is that you can have 6 disks, and get a logical disk that is the size of 5 of them, vs. with RAID 1, you would get a logical disk the size of 3 of them. So you get more space (i.e. cheaper). The downfall, is that this is the slowest raid as all data has to have a parity calculated for it (they use the XOR operation).
So, RAID 0 is fast, and with the stability of drives today, not that bad of a risk. Just make sure you have enough cooling for the disks. Heat is the worst for making them fail, and if you are going to risk a raid 0, lets not encourage the drives to fail.