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Raiding different HDDs

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neutralizer

Lifer
I bought a WD800JB a while ago and this friday i also picked up a Maxtor 80GB w/ 8 mb Cache and fluid bearings (I forgot the model name 🙁 ). Though they have diferent seek times, i was wondering if it is possible to raid 0 them together without any substantial individual performance drop?
 
Well let me tell ya... I have that exact same combo (800JB and the Maxtor Ultra Series 80 gig 8mb drive) and I have them striped in RAID 0 via my onboard Promise controller.

In Sisoft Sandra 2002 benchmarks, it scores 4513, which is higher than any of the included reference scores. I realise this a synthetic benchmark, and not even the best hard drive test, but it's what I have on hand at the moment. If you have the free version of the program (all i have) run your current drive and see if 4500+ seems like an OK score to you.

And this is with the crappy onboard controller with no options for stripe or cluster size. A decent PCI RAID controller card would perform even better.
 
I will also ad, this is a seriously quiet drive combo. both drives are very quiet, and other than initial spin up thay go un-noticed noise wise.
 
What about heat? My 3.5" bay only holds three, currently floppy at the top and WD800JB at bottom, with a gap bay in the middle. Should i move the floppy between the two HDDs?
 
Ida no... I have a gap for another HD between mine and two 80mm fans blowing directly on the drives (LianLi PC-65). They have always been downright cool to the touch when i have checked them.

I guess in your case i would put the floppy between them if you use it (i don't have one).
 
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