WD raiding question

[ohms]

Can you raid together a WD Raptor 150gb WD1500AHFD and a WD VelociRaptor 150gb WD1500HLFS?

Are there going to be any issues with them being 2 physically different drives?

 

[mischifdad]

Sorry the answer is NO.... you can't configure them in any raid mode.The hard drives have to be exactly the same.

 

[ohms]

doh

 

[Crosshairs]

Yes you can RAID them together.
In a RAID 0 The performance would be equal to the lesser drive.
You can also RAID 0 an 80Gb and a 120Gb but the space would be equal to the lesser drive also...in that case it would be 160Gb
so yeah, you can do it.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/245367-32-heterogeneous-raid-arrays-work

 

[engiNURD]

+1 to what Crosshairs said.

Sorry the answer is NO.... you can't configure them in any raid mode.The hard drives have to be exactly the same.

Why not? Please explain.

 

[ohms]

Ah sweet, thanks Crosshairs