So I've got two 500GB HDs...

[Fyron]

AstralWanderer said:
"This is BS - faster hard drives will always provide a performance improvement and for a home user, games will show the most obvious benefit."

Raapys said:
"This will let those programs take advatange of the great performance of Raid0."

Faster performance only matters when you are speeding up a bottleneck... When disk access is already so fast as to not be a bottleneck in a single user, non-server environment, a few percent improvement doesn't really matter.

Raapys said:
"Also, you guys seem to be missing the fact that most people want the biggest possible amount of disk space these days.

Actually, the fact is that Narf doesn't need 1 TB of space, and doesn't even really need 500 GB of space. He bought two drives explicitly to use one as a backup, not as extra storage space. What most people want (which neither you nor I are at all qualified to judge; argument by popularity and all that) is irrelevant to the suggestions made to Narf.