Apple MacBook Pro Single SSD or RAID 0 Array with 2 SSDs

[cwsm]

Difficulty deciding between 1 or 2. Unsure about real world performance gain of 2. No experience with SSDs or RAID 0. Worried about alignment and sleep/hibernate issues. Stock 5400rpm 320GB will go inside eSATA enclosure. Does anybody have a good eSATA ExpressCard/34 to recommend? I don't care about the SuperDrive. But I'll keep it for Care warranty purposes.

15" Late '08 Unibody
2.56GHz/4GB/9400M+9600GT

Currently interested in OCZ Vertex 2 Extended 60GB (x2)

I would be okay in losing sleep if it can shut down in 5s, boot in 10.
Ideally, I want to have everything done before school starts.

 

[bobbytomorow]

imo it depends on your storage needs

in a desktop sure a SSD RAID array is great because you also have room for a few large drives for storage

but in a notebook, if i were to run 2 drives i would opt for one SSD and one large standard drive for storage

you will see enough of a performance leap from one SSD but in RAID you will be using up your options and have little space for tunes/flicks/etc

i would go SSD + 500GB (or more) secondary drive for data storage