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    Raid 0 with two different HDDs.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by danielotero, Sep 10, 2012.

  1. danielotero

    danielotero Notebook Guru

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    Hi,
    The question is basically what the title says: can you do Raid 0 with two different hard drives? My examples would be 750gb 7200rpm (Serial-ATA II 300 - 16MB Cache) with 120/60gb Intel 520 Series Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA III) and 500GB/7200rpm Seagate Momentus XT Hybrid Drive w/4GB SSD Memory SATA-300 (SATA II 3GB/s) with 120/60gb Intel 520 Series Solid State Drive (SSD2 Serial-ATA III).

    ps.: I put 60/120 because I want to know if there will be any difference doing Raid 0 with either one or the other.

    Daniel.
     
    danielotero, Sep 10, 2012
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  2. R3d

    R3d Notebook Virtuoso

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    Yes, but it'll drop both drives to the lowest capacity and speed. So RAID 0ing a high capacity slow HDD with a low capacity fast SSD would be dumb.
     
    R3d, Sep 10, 2012
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  3. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    As stated above, yes you can but the slowest drive will slow down the entire RAID array.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Sep 10, 2012
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