Mixed Raptors in RAID-0

[cold_steel]

Ok I have had a pair of 150GB Raptor drives in RAID-0 for a while now. Last week one of the drives started crapping out, so RMA time here we come. WD is finally showing they are shipping me a drive, but it looks to be the 160 GB variant. I'm assuming RAID-0 on the drives will be ok, I'll just lose that extra 10GB on the new drive (didnt have it before anyway, so whatever) but is there a possibility of poorer performance due to the mix of non identical drives? I shipped out a Raptor 150 model WD1500ADFD-00NLR1 and I will be recieving a model WD1600ADFD-60NLR5 in return.

 

[thebeephaha]

It's fine.

 

[cold_steel]

ok great news. thanks man

 

[Ockie]

I would not do raid 0 in the first place, much less raid 0 with two different drives. But regardless of my opinion, you should be fine

 

[cold_steel]

why is that? ive had pretty good experiences with my raptor array. Ive had other slower 7200 rpm drives raided up before and the combined seek time made it slower than i would have liked but the raptors seek times are so good even combined its really quick. why do you oppose it?