Creating a software RAID in Linux is faster than Windows because it only requires a couple of console commands. In our example, we booted from a live Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ...
Use RAID 1 for your OS. It is fault tolerant. You lose the hard drive to failure, you have a spare to move or repoint your boot.ini file. RAID 0 is not fault tolerant. You lose one drive, say bye bye ...