Is it Possible to RAID a SATA and SATA II drive?

Benny · 8 May 2009 at 09:50

Hi,

As the title suggests, is it possible to RAID a Western Digital Raptor X (SATA)and a Western Digital VelociRaptor 150GB (SATA II)? if yes would the SATA difference affect the performance in anyway?

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miniyazz · 8 May 2009 at 11:20

As I understand it, you can RAID them if the capacity is the same. If the capacity is different, you will be limited to number of drives x capacity of smallest drive.
SATA 1 is unlikely to affect the performance - it is only SSDs and perhaps newer Raptors that max out SATA 1 bandwidth.

CaseyChaos · 8 May 2009 at 14:57

Yes you can, I did this with a 320GB sata2 and a 300GB sata. I lost the extra 20GB on the newer drive but it worked perfectly fine for about 2 years.

Benny · 8 May 2009 at 17:46

Thanks for the info miniyazz/CaseyChaos

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