Simple question about raid 0

[gosstech]

I just got a new Abit BD7-raid motherboard and had a question about using the raid features.

I have two hard drives but they are not the same size. One is 27GB and the other is 13Gb.

Is if possible to use these two drives in a raid 0 configuration, or do I need two identical drives.

Second question is if I use a raid 0 configuartion and one drive goes down do I lose all the data and can I have multiple partitions on these drives.

If you can answer these for me or send me links to where I can find the answers I would appreciate it.

thanks,
gosstech

 

[bozo1]

You do not have to use the same size drives but if you don't, your array size will be twice the size of the smallest drive. If you use 1 13GB drive and 1 27GB drive, your array size will be 26GB - you will lose the rest of your disk capacity.

If you lose one drive, you lose everything.

You cannot have multiple partitions on each drive, you can have multipile partitions in your array. (Your system sees you array as one drive, you can partition it however you want.)