Raid 0 offers performance with worse reliability

RAID is defined:

Redundant Array of Independent Drives

Whenever I think of RAID I think of data drives that each contain the same information, for fault tolerance. Different RAID configurations are given different numeric identifiers. Recently, when shopping for motherboards I saw RAID 0 listed as a selling point for many of the boards and I assumed this was a fault tolerance feature on these motherboards meant for gamers.

RAID 0 has nothing to do with fault tolerance. Nor redundance. In a Raid 0 configuration data is spread across multiple drives with the intention of increasing the bandwidth of data from the motherboard/CPU to the drives. It is a technique for increasing performance that actually reduces fault tolerance.

Read more about RAID here -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

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