RAID 0 with DIsk Partitions

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turfnsurf4me

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Is this possible?

HDD 1 = 500 Gb
HDD 2 = 1Tb


A) Partion HDD 2 in half so that I have 2 partitions @ 500 Gb.
B) Setup RAID 0 with HDD1 and the one half of the HDD 2.

OR....do I need to have identical drives ( in terms of disk space ) to make the
RAID 0 work?


And if the original thought/desire would work, would I be able to access the
other half of HDD 2 to do whatever I wanted with it?
 
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The answer to my question is..... ( from other people more knowledgeable than me )

Yes, I can do that. However, if a RAID hardware solution is implemented, I'd lose use of half of that 1 TB drive. So, considering disks are cheap these days, it makes much more sense to me, to just get another 500Gb HDD and RAID 0 both 500 Gb HDD’s. Use the 1TB drive for backups and such.
 
Agree, why would you do that? Just get another 500GB hard drive, RAID 0 the new HDD and HDD 1 to become drive C. Leave the 1TB drive as 1TB and just run it for storage as drive D.

Getting a 500GB drive is cheap, saw at Newegg Seagate's and WD's for $38-$54.
 
you can span them too and make a 1.5gb array. though it'd probably decrease performance.

i'd just run them independently; run windows off the faster hard drive and mount the into a folder on the main drive
 
turfnsurf4me said:
NO, I can NOT do that. Because, if a RAID hardware solution is implemented, I'd lose use of half of that 1 TB drive.
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you RAID drives, not partitions. you can not RAID half a drive with a normal RAID controller (especially regular, crappy, on-board controllers). some controllers with additional features may be able to, but then you get to the question of why? you would have terrible performance under many situations.
 
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