I have an 80GB Western Digital hard drive and I am wanting to buy another Western Digital 80GB drive so I can put both drives on a RAID 0 configuration. My question is, both drives are the exact same, except one drive has the regular 2MB buffer, and the new drive I want is the Western Digital "Special Edition" with an 8MB buffer.
Both drives are 7200RPM IDE ULTRA ATA100 drives except for the buffer differences. Will my RAID 0 setup be affected by the different buffer sizes? Will it default to the slower buffer of 2MB? Thanks for any information.

If memory serves it will not work, the raid control chip depending on the type will not allow you to build the raid array.

The 2 drives must be identical for raid 0.

Take note !!!

The special edition WD drives were not very good for raid setups at all. I had a bad exprns with these drives about 7 months ago whre the system kept carshing with them on raid 0.

I took them off and installed another set and all worked fine.

You should find some information about this issue on the WD support site. It has something to do with the anty vibration mechanism within the system drive.

I would recomend the Seagate 80m gig with 8 meg cache, they work great with raid 0 config.

Hope that helps

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