Should I use Raid 0?

Modz 4 Higher · 04-01-12, 07:25 PM

I have several HDD's that I want to combine together, essentially having one big drive. Now my drives are of different sizes and brands will this work or no?

thideras · 04-01-12, 07:31 PM

If you put two different drives in RAID 0, they are going to be limited by the smallest and slowest drive. For example, if you had a 100gb drive and a 250gb drive in RAID 0, you would only have 200gb of space (100gb/e) and the extra space is unusable. Additionally, the faster drive will be constantly waiting on the slower drive to finish operations, which could cause stuttering.

It is best to only do RAID with same model disks.

Modz 4 Higher · 04-01-12, 07:57 PM

Okay cool. So I'll just use then as individual disks

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thideras Banned Neckbeard Moderator Premium Member #3 Join Date: May 2006 Location: South Dakota	If you put two different drives in RAID 0, they are going to be limited by the smallest and slowest drive. For example, if you had a 100gb drive and a 250gb drive in RAID 0, you would only have 200gb of space (100gb/e) and the extra space is unusable. Additionally, the faster drive will be constantly waiting on the slower drive to finish operations, which could cause stuttering. It is best to only do RAID with same model disks. __________________ Desktop: Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H \| 3570k 4.6 GHz \| 32 GB GSkill Ares \| GTX 570 \| 180 GB Intel & 2 TB total \| Arch Linux and Windows 7 Main server: 37 TB raw disk \| 2x Opteron 6134 \| Asus KGPE-D16 \| 48 GB RAM \| LSI 8708EM2 \| CentOS 6.2 VM Server 1: Dell R510 \| 2x E5645 \| 128 GB RAM \| 4x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) VM Server 2: Dell R710 \| 2x E5645 \| 288 GB RAM \| 8x 300 GB Velociraptor \| Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) "That's not overkill, or a lot. That's just thiderastic." -txus.palacios Current projects: Rackmount Overkill (New) \| 30/45 hard drive server Articles: Rack Mounting 101 \| Dell Perc 5/i Throughput Benchmarks Past projects: Software RAID \| The Dragon Case My Website *Want to talk directly to all* the moderators at once? Call the Mod Hotline!**
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04-01-12, 07:57 PM	Thread Starter #3
Modz 4 Higher Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Houston, TX	Okay cool. So I'll just use then as individual disks __________________ EVGA P67 FTW / i7 2600k @ 4.9GHz Swiftech Apogee HD / 2x MCR320 / MCP-35x 16GB G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 1333MHz Patriot Pyro 60Gb SSD / Hitachi 1TB 7200rpm Seagate 500Gb 7200rpm / OCZ 750w Modular EVGA GTX 480 GeForce 1.5GB GDDR5 Xigmatek Elysium / Win7 Ultimate 64-bit
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