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RAID array - Is it okay to mix and match SATA and PATA?

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GundamF91

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I'm thinking of doing RAID, either 0 or 1. I'm wondering if it's doable if I use a SATA drive and a PATA drive to do this?
 
only on some NVIDIA chipsets it is doable, but on P35 PATA drives are on separate single channel controller that has no RAID abilities.
 
Or, if you are running Linux, then you can use mdadm to do software RAID, and that should work fine. Not recommended, but it should work
 
Not recommended, but it should work.
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I don't see why it wouldn't be recommended, except that the slower of the drives may end up slowing the other one down. Otherwise the interface that the drive is using is irrelevant.
 
The actual drives are as important as the controller based on what I have read in the past. The recommendation is to use exactly matching HDs as using drives with different seek times, different caches, etc can monkey with the controller as it is trying to simultaneously write to 2 drives.

Do you have 2 similar drives, 1 PATA and 1 SATA?
 
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