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    Raid 0 Question need help!!!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by hellhoundpro, Aug 8, 2011.

  1. hellhoundpro

    hellhoundpro Notebook Enthusiast

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    IF I raid 0 a 500GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Buffer (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s) and a 640GB 5400RPM 8MB Cache Buffer (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s) together will it slow down the faster one?
     
    hellhoundpro, Aug 8, 2011
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  2. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    You should use the same sized drive and hard drive series in RAID 0. It will render 140 GB out of the 640 GB useless. Also if you are looking for gaming performance, stop as RAID 0 yields 0 gaming performance improvement.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Aug 9, 2011
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  3. Krane

    Krane Notebook Prophet

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    Negative. The drives must be identical.
     
    Krane, Aug 9, 2011
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    Jarhead 恋の♡アカサタナ

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    If you're looking for speed, ignore RAID 0 and buy a decent SATAIII SSD; even a SATAII SSD would be much faster than a 7200RPM drive. More simple to setup, and you don't have to worry about reliability as much (if one of your RAID 0 drives fail, you're done). Just use the 500GB and 640GB drives for storage or something instead.
     
    Jarhead, Aug 9, 2011
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