What? WD Caviars?

[Strida]

I bought a second WD 80g Caviar and I just noticed they are different. One's metal top is smaller than the other's, and one has a thicker black area.

They are supposed to be the same b/c they have the same name I thought... Will this affect either one's performance? I will be running them in RAID0.

 

[L337 M33P]

What are the production dates on the drives? Different revision maybe?

If they are the same model number and type, then by all means RAID0 'em.

 

[CrashOveride]

One may just be older... or one may be a JB (8mb cache) as opposed to BB (I don't know that they made JB Caviar drives though). If the latter is the case it may effect it, otherwise I doubt it. Either way you should be good to go with raid 0 on em'.

 

[Strida]

I'll go ahead with it then..

 

[jajmon]

If the physical drive specs are equal (heads/cyl/sectors/rpms- etc) vs. the cosmetics, then raid them.