RAID 0 with different sized drives?

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I bought a 300GB SATA drive for my new computer simply because it was the cheapest one I could find at the time, I only use around 50GB. As I understand it, if I got another drive that's only 160GB for RAID 0, I would end up with 160x2, right? Is it possible to partition the leftover 140 gigs on the first drive and use that as well...or is it gone?
 
Yes, you can do what you are speaking of. Just create a partition of the same size on the larger drive, then add them to the same RAID 0 array.. The only problem being, when you access the leftover space on the bigger drive, the array will suffer a large performance hit.
 
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