mix 8mb with 16mb?

[infamus]

make it easy

- have 2x36gb raptors w/16mb cache in RAID 0
- have 1x36gb raptor w/8mb cache
- can i raid them all in RAID 0?
- any performance side-effects?
- how much for the pen is mightier?

 

[DonDon]

In the early days of RAID, you had to have matching drives. Today, you can mix and match drives, but it will obviously default to the smallest and slowest drive in the array.

Benchmark the 2 drive array. If adding the 3rd drive scales the speed up adequately, it should make up for the smaller cache on the third drive.

Don

 

[nitrobass24]

I wouldn't hesitate to do it on my system....drive cache does not have too much effect on sequential read/writes which is where RAID0 really shines.