Can I put a 75gb western digital HD and a 40gb Maxtor on RAID?

[TightHardware]

I feel embarrased asking this, but can I put a 75 gb 7200 rpm western digital ata 100 with a 40 gb 7200 maxtor ata 133 on raid?

-TH

 

[Pabster]

Yes, but it would be foolish. You'd lose 35GB of capacity for starters.

 

[EdipisReks]

as Pabster said, you would lose drive space. a raid system will only give you as much hard drive space as what the smallest drive has. that is one reason why matched drives is the way to go. unmatched drives can also cause stability and speed problems.

--jacob

 

[goog]

Yep, but like they said you lose 35GB. To expand on that the useable storage is 2x the smallest drive size. Also, the speed will be based on the slower drive.
ATA 133 won't really matter. WD makes/made 75GB drives?

 

[InsaneMorphius]

Recommend you keep the fastest drive on primary (40GB) and the other as a backup 🙂

 

[TightHardware]

Thanks everyone, I meant 80 gig, I ended up not getting them and edipus VIVA mikhailtech 🙂

Thanks all,
TH

aka Ryan in mikhailtech forums

 

[sharkeeper]

If you want the maximum amount of space you can span both drives using JBOD. (Just a Bunch Of Drives) The performance is the same as with independant drives, but your capacity is represented as a single volume as it would be with striping two drives of identical sizes. Striping also works best with identical drives. (from same mfr, firmware, capacity, etc.)

Cheers!