Different version drives for RAID 0?

[cozm01]

I have 2x Raptor 74gb in RAID 0, but they are different model versions. Is this ok?

 

[semi-pro waster]

Ideally they would be exactly the same in terms of revision to minimise the risk of them operating out of sync or similar but if not it shouldn't matter greatly. The only way to know for certain is to try it but I wouldn't worry about it too much (at least not any more than I'd worry about any Raid0 array if it is holding critical data).

 

[rpstewart]

Yeah, it'll be fine. The drives are sufficiently close in spec that there will be little difference in performance between them so the RAID performance won't be compromised really.