SSD's In RAID?

[Liamalxd]

Would it benefit me to putting these two SSD's in RAID? Or would they be too incompatible?

SSD 1: CRUCIAL C300 60GB 6.0GB/S SSD READ:375MB/S WRITE:75MB/S

SSD 2: OCZ VERTEX 2 120GB 3.0GB/S SSD READ:285MB/S WRITE:275MB/S

I was thinking about Raid 1? would it work, or do they need to be the same size?

Thanks.

 

[Surveyor]

I would think that putting those drives in a RAID array would be a bit of a disaster.

They have completely different speeds, especially the write speed, so even if they worked without problems one drive would bottleneck the other.

RAID1 is for redundancy and mirrors the data of one drive to the other. You'd end up with an array 60GB in size (the size of the smallest disk) from 180GB's worth of SSD's, a waste.

 

[Liamalxd]

I would think that putting those drives in a RAID array would be a bit of a disaster.

They have completely different speeds, especially the write speed, so even if they worked without problems one drive would bottleneck the other.

RAID1 is for redundancy and mirrors the data of one drive to the other. You'd end up with an array 60GB in size (the size of the smallest disk) from 180GB's worth of SSD's, a waste.

Sorry i meant to put RAID 0 (striping!)

 

[Surveyor]

With RAID0 you'd end up with 120GB of storage, 60GB from each SSD, so you'd lose 60GB from the OCZ drive.

Again I would think the differing speeds of the SSD's would cause problems and bottlenecks.

I would say you wouldn't be any better off than just using the 120GB OCZ drive on its own plus you would add the risk of a RAID falure.

 

[Liamalxd]

With RAID0 you'd end up with 120GB of storage, 60GB from each SSD, so you'd lose 60GB from the OCZ drive.

Again I would think the differing speeds of the SSD's would cause problems and bottlenecks.

I would say you wouldn't be any better off than just using the 120GB OCZ drive on its own plus you would add the risk of a RAID falure.

Fair enough, forget that idea then lol