2nd what johnny said " Use makes a diff"
I'm with sminlal - avoid raid0 untill they fix the trim issue
I pretty much go with Tecmo34, 2 seperate drives, not in Raid0, Followed very closely with sminlal's choice of 1 large drive.
I think some times we tend to look at the benchmarks more than real life day-to-day use. ie:
Booting - So you shave 5->10 sec off, how offten do you boot. Myself Once or twice a day, others leave on 24/7. Time is only shaved in loading the operating system, not the post. This is for going from Sata2 to Sata 3 SSD. Using the same SSD; The savings of Large, small, or a raid 0 is not going to be greater, maybe in the order of 2->5 Sec.
Program load. Once you click on the shortcut and the time it's available , If you can not move your mouse there before the program is ready - It makes No diff. When I click on a Spreadsheet recent link. The program and spredsheet are availabile before I can move my mouse to a cell to edit it - And that is a SATA 2 SSD.
Game playing - Yes the program/Maps/Tables will load faster if on an SSD vs a HDD. But will that translate to a noticable diff going from (a) two small SSDs -> 1 large SSD -> 2 SSDs in Raid0 (All say Vertex 3). If you cannot perform an operation in the difference of time, then moot point.
Program load time.
A 2nd consideration - speed verse reliability/quality.
I get the feeling that OCZ is going for performance at the cost of quality. A SSD should be pretty much plug-an-play. The emphasis here is on the word PLAY, annd that's not game play time. It's the possibility that you may PLAY getting it to work. You can get a good feel for this reading the OCZ forums.
Case in point: Order 2 Agility-3's. Put one on my desktop (Z68 Asrock Extreme4) and it was as plug-&-Play as it should be.
Recieved my new Notebook (Samsung RF711-S)1, SB also). FORGET IT. Win 7 would bomb out when expanding files. Looked at OCZ forum, so downloaded the newest firmware + toolbox. Put it on my I5 Desktop - There OWN program could not find the SSD; However Little old Win 7 could see it, initialize/partition/format the drive. O, now OCZ could find the SSD, but It already had the lastest Fireware.
Bottom Line here is OCZ vertex 3 maybe the KING, but untill OCZ get's their act together, I'll be looking at a little less performance and more at Quality and customer service - ie fixing their toolbox and their firmware.