Raid 0 (stripping) 2 drives??

[IntelInsideIdiotOutside]

Heya!

I got 2 harddisk, both are from Matrox. 1 is a 80GB D740X (7200rpm/UDMA133) and 1 "old" 13GB 4320 (5400rpm/UDMA33). Is it possible to strip these drives? or would that lead to nothing?!?

Thanks!

 

[XMan]

Sure, you'd get a 26GB effective size hard drive, because RAID0 is limited by the size of the smallest disk.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Xerox Man
Sure, you'd get a 26GB effective size hard drive, because RAID0 is limited by the size of the smallest disk.

Roger that. You could do JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks...aka "spanning") to get "one disc" that's approx 93 GB in size, but I'm not sure if both would run at the slower speed of 5400 or not...I think they would. Not worth it, IMHO.

I have seen that Maxtor drive you have for 109 over at Newegg....get a second one and put them in RAID0 (that's what I run) and you'll be very happy w/the results.

 

[joohang]

Both stripping or striping would be a bad idea.

Roger that. You could do JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks...aka "spanning") to get "one disc" that's approx 93 GB in size, but I'm not sure if both would run at the slower speed of 5400 or not...I think they would. Not worth it, IMHO.

You mean like mounting a new volume in Windows 2000/XP? Does that work well, btw? I never tried it before.

 

[Woodchuck2000]

If you convert both drives to dynamic drives in win2k/XP disk management, you can span a volume across both drives. This volume will run at the speed of whichever drive you happen to be reading off.

It's fairly pointless doing that, you may as well just have two separate partitions.

If you decide to go for drive stripping, make sure you post some pics for us

 

[IntelInsideIdiotOutside]

Originally posted by: Woodchuck2000
If you convert both drives to dynamic drives in win2k/XP disk management, you can span a volume across both drives. This volume will run at the speed of whichever drive you happen to be reading off.

It's fairly pointless doing that, you may as well just have two separate partitions.

If you decide to go for drive stripping, make sure you post some pics for us

Ok its striping, I get the point

Thanks for the info tho

 

[Sunner]

Gotta say I love that nick

Now before everyone starts flaming me, I like it cause I think it's funny, not cause I hate Intel or anything.

 

[joohang]

In case the main hard drive fails, are the data stored in the volume-mounted drive recoverable?