RAID Drives need to be identical?

[Ben Cole]

I've never used RAID before but might have a play now because I found that a 250Gb drive I had lying round was SATA not IDE as I thought.

I realise that the drives need to be the same capacity for striping so can anybody tell me what I can do with theses two?

Maxtor Diamond Max 10 Model:6V250F0 250Gb

Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Model:ST3250620AS 250GB

Thanks,

Ben.

 

[Ben Cole]

Thanks guys. As you suggest, I think I'll suck it and see.

 

[Ben Cole]

Been sucking it for a month or so.

Seems to work nicely.

Windows Vista gave a performance increase of 0.7 over the Barracuda on it's own.