Can i put two different SSD's in RAID0?

Goucho · 9 Jan 2015 at 10:46

Hi there is it possible to put two different SSD's in RAID0. Probs a stupid question but if you don't ask you will never learn anything lol.

1. Intel® SSD 330 180GB
2. OCZ-VERTEX3 120GB

FloppyPoppy · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:05

Goucho said:
Hi there is it possible to put two different SSD's in RAID0. Probs a stupid question but if you don't ask you will never learn anything lol.

1. Intel® SSD 330 180GB
2. OCZ-VERTEX3 120GB

Yes you can put these into raid 0 together

However, raid 0 requires matched capacitys so your 180gb drive will effectively become a 120gb drive to match the ocz, to give a total cap of 240.

Hope this helps

Goucho · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:28

Thanx i am surprised with that

Would i get to use the 60GB or will that not be accessablebleble

spoffle · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:35

No, it won't be accessible, and what's with all the winking?

FloppyPoppy · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:35

Goucho said:
Thanx i am surprised with that

Would i get to use the 60GB or will that not be accessablebleble

The remaining 60gb would not be useable whilst in raid 0, It would only re appear once you removed the raid volume. But this of course would mean loosing your data aswell.

What are you thinking of using this raid array for ?

FloppyPoppy · 9 Jan 2015 at 11:39

spoffle said:
No, it won't be accessible, and what's with all the winking?

Think he has something in his eye D:

Ronald · 9 Jan 2015 at 12:38

It is barely worth RAID-0 for most consumers (The performance comes from IOPS, not throughput), so adding the loss of capacity, I'd just leave them as normal volumes.

ubersonic · 9 Jan 2015 at 15:43

Goucho said:
Hi there is it possible to put two different SSD's in RAID0. Probs a stupid question but if you don't ask you will never learn anything lol.

1. Intel® SSD 330 180GB
2. OCZ-VERTEX3 120GB

Like people have said you would be limited to 240GB, however...

If you format 60GB of the 180GB disk as a boot disk and install windows, you can then make a software RAID partition using the 120GB left and the 120GB drive and this will give you a 240GB RAID0 array plus your 60GB space, and be just as fast as motherboard RAID.

*EDIT*

Bah NVM, forgot it only works on Windows Server.

FloppyPoppy · 9 Jan 2015 at 16:14

ubersonic said:
Like people have said you would be limited to 240GB, however...

If you format 60GB of the 180GB disk as a boot disk and install windows, you can then make a software RAID partition using the 120GB left and the 120GB drive and this will give you a 240GB RAID0 array plus your 60GB space, and be just as fast as motherboard RAID.

*EDIT*

Bah NVM, forgot it only works on Windows Server.

Was going to say then you can't do that on a typical os

Goucho · 9 Jan 2015 at 16:20

Thanx guys maybe i would be better off matching the faster one if i can get it cheap enough.

The winks are a habit thing as i use smileys a lot to make sure peeps don't misconstrue what i am saying, i suppose they would be better served on a more social forum than a tech forum eh

tom_e · 9 Jan 2015 at 16:24

Goucho said:
Thanx guys maybe i would be better off matching the faster one if i can get it cheap enough.

The winks are a habit thing as i use smileys a lot to make sure peeps don't misconstrue what i am saying, i suppose they would be better served on a more social forum than a tech forum eh

Negative Ghostrider you're just using them wrong

bledd · 9 Jan 2015 at 17:01

Might be better off just buying a PCI-E SSD card.

Personally, I wouldn't bother with RAID0 SSD.

wazza300 · 9 Jan 2015 at 17:12

drop the ocz like its hot and make do with the intel