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Sata raid
Name: kpatel516 Date: December 12, 2003 at 14:14:53 Pacific OS: Win 2000 CPU/Ram: P4 2.8 w/1 gig ram
Comment:
I have a Seagate 120 SATA HD rite now...i was looking to make my machine into a Raid 0...do i have to get the same identical harddrive (size, manufacture, model) or could it be any SATA HD
Name: Andrew Date: December 12, 2003 at 19:11:29 Pacific
Reply:
I'm pretty sure they don't but one the faster or bigger drive will be forced to run exactly the same as the small one. For example On a RAID 0 setup on normal ATA you have one 80gb ATA 133 and a 40gb ATA 100, You will only be able to use 40gb of the 1st drive and it will run at ATA 100. I'm pretty sure that's how it works, but I could be wrong.
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