RAID 0 Question (almost 2 identicle hard drives)

[LarryJoe]

I have two 20GB Maxtor hard drives. In terms of recognized BIOS size, one reads as 19510 and the other 19520. On drive is ATA66 and the other ATA100. Both are 7200rpm.

Based on the above, will I have any trouble configuring these in a RAID 0 array?

Thanks,

LJ

 

[WarpSpeed]

Probably do OK, but you should ask the chipset maker of your RAID controller. Likely only run at UDMA66.

 

[vec]

I'm not sure about the ATA 66 vs ATA 100, but I configured a couple of WD drives (13.5g and 13.6g) in RAID 0 without a problem on a hacked fastrak66 card. Still working great. Keep in mind you lose the extra space on the larger drive.

 

[LarryJoe]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot. I assume I will have to bring the ATA100 down to ATA133.

 

[Mavrick007]

Your drives are very similar and probably the only difference is with the transfer. I don't see you having any problems running Raid 0 on these drives. The rate will be reduced to the slowest drive on your controller though, so since you have ATA66, it will be that, but it will be closer to ATA66 than a single ATA100 drive would be since they are in Raid 0(speed is increased more than just single drives alone).

 

[LarryJoe]

Do you think I should go out and buy another 20GB ATA100 drive or is it not worth it?

 

[goog]

Not really worth it.
STR won't top 66MB/s regardless, burst might though.