Do i need 2 idenical HD for Raid ?

[sbaksh]

Hey Guys,
I have a Seagate drives, a 120 and 160 GB and i want to know if i have to use to identical drives for raid.

Thanks in advance.

 

[dwcal]

I think it'll work, but you'll waste 40GB of space on the larger drive. If it won't work, the RAID setup utility will tell you right away.

 

[conlan]

I'm assuming your asking about RAID 0?

Should work, but like dwcal posted, you'll be wasting 40GB of Hdd space.

If you are indeed asking about RAID 0, can i ask why you want to stripe your drives?

 

[sbaksh]

well don't raid 0 give more performance boost when crunching data ?

 

[imported_Nacelle]

Only if you're moving massive amounts of data back and forth. The one thing I found raid 0 to be great for was, lan parties. When you have lots of stuff that everyone wants to leech from you, It won't bog your computer down as much when you're playing games.