Is it possible to run two different brand hard drives in Raid 0

[yanon]

I have one Seagate (30 GBytes, ATA66, 7200RPM) and one Maxtor (30 Gbytes, ATA100, 7200RPM). Is it possible to have these two hard drives in a raid configuration? How about two hard drives with different size? How about two hard drives with different RPM? I am also think about buying a Maxtor 540X 40GBytes 5400RPM hard drive. Is the performance difference between a 7200RPM hard drive and a 5400RPM hard drive really warrants their price difference?

 

[Transistor]

You can run any two HDDs in a RAID 0 config. It's just that the size of the RAID 0 drive will be 2X the size of your smaller drive. And your performance won't be quite as good as it could have been with two matched drives. But, yes you can do it.

 

[Athlon4all]

Not recommended to run 2 different drives in RAID 0. They really should have the same platter size, same size, same Spindle speed, but really they should be the same exact drive.

 

[TRDsupra]

Its possible but keep in mind that you're not getting maximum potential out of raid 0 if you're after speed.

 

[ukDave]

yes it is possible, and your drives seem very similar so you should have no probs.

go to the promise web site and there will be info there on how to set-up a raid config, with more info on this subject.

dave