Question on utilizing raid 0 with different size drives

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If I took a 400 gig and a 250 gig and raid 0ed them in an external box. Would that work to give me one size drive letter equaling both drives?

Or can I not use Raid 0 with different size drives?
 
RAID of any type will be limited to the size of the smallest drive. So with your proposed plan, you would have a 500GB RAID 0 array despite using a 250GB and 400GB drive. Since 250GB is the size of the smallest drive, you are limited to 250GB as well on the 400GB when using RAID.
 
Danny Bui said:
RAID of any type will be limited to the size of the smallest drive. So with your proposed plan, you would have a 500GB RAID 0 array despite using a 250GB and 400GB drive. Since 250GB is the size of the smallest drive, you are limited to 250GB as well on the 400GB when using RAID.
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Will that hurt the 400 to be limited like that?
 
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