maxtor raid0 16mb 8mb setup

[will11209]

hi. i bought another maxtor 200 diamondmax10 7200rpm IDE hard drive for my system. i found out that the one i already have is model 6l200P0 with a 8mb cache:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144183

the one i bought at staples for 40 after rebate is the 16mb cache version 6l200R0:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144187

now the 8mb cache is on master and the 16mb is on the slave. is there going to be a problem for my raid setup? these are identical drives except for the cache. would putting the 16mb on master make the raid faster?

 

[bob4432]

why do you want to go raid 0?

 

[will11209]

speed increase on a limited budget

 

[keeleysam]

They will NOT work in RAID together.

 

[bamacre]

No, any increase would be very minimal. It's nowhere near worth doubling the risk of losing all your data.

 

[bob4432]

not going to get the speed unless all you do is move around large (GB size) files.

 

[EatSpam]

Maxtor plus RAID 0? Hope you have good backups!

 

[Yeormom]

You're probably going to experience instability because one drive may get behind in file transfers and the other finishing could make a cheap RAID controller signal for continuation of files. Potentionally, that could currupt data instantly.