The Kobo isn’t fully released in the USA, but it is available for pre-order. During the pre-order period, at least until this week, it was one of the cheapest of the better designed eReaders available. The Kindle and the nook were going for $260 while the Kobo was going for $150. Obviously, at such a low price point, this means you are getting less, right? That really depends on how you look at it.
I’ve been running with a RAID0 array for a little while now because I was disappointed with the write performance of a single drive when recording with FRAPS. Unfortunately, my read performance didn’t improve as much as I had hoped despite going with a three 7.2k RPM drive configuration. It seems that in real world tests, RAID0 on a home computer is not really worth it. The performance gain is quite small, even when using a discrete RAID controller. One of the real world observations I made is when playing Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II in Last Stand mode with my roommate, his computer consistently loads into gameplay faster than my computer, and he is using a single 10k RPM drive.
