Raid 0 Question

[scaza]

Xmas is around the corner and i thought i deserved a treat, and as i'm wiping my pc soon, i thought i'ld kill two birds with one stone and raid up my old hdd.

I have a Maxtor diamondmax 21 250gb and looking to get another.

The only problem is the hard drive sold on OcUk is different, same spes but a different name code.

STM3250820AS <-- HDD currently
STM3250310AS <-- HDD sold on OcUk

So my question, Do the HDD's need to be exactly the same drives to use Raid 0?

Thanks

 

[malcolm]

No they don't.

If there is a difference in capacity, the array will be double the size of the smallest drive. Sometimes the capacity of drives of the same nominal capacity varies.

I had two old IDE drives raided as a data array, one was a Hitachi the other a Diamond Max 9, worked fine.