I have a macbook issue..

[archimbiographer]

Hi,

 

So my hdd on my late 2011 macbook pro failed. I opted to upgrade to an ssd for my OS and a sshd for my regular documents and such. My question is, am I able to run both into raid zero - that way I can use both storage simultaneously?

[Guest]

Yes, but it will perform as fast as the slowest drive. So, your SSHD would bottleneck your SSD. 

 

(Or so i think... not much experience with raid). 

[C0LL0SS0S]

Hi,

 

So my hdd on my late 2011 macbook pro failed. I opted to upgrade to an ssd for my OS and a sshd for my regular documents and such. My question is, am I able to run both into raid zero - that way I can use both storage simultaneously?

You wrote issue twice in the title, just kidding. I doubt you gonny be able to raid a ssd and a sshd, and if so the sshd will bottleneck

[Novistion]

Hi,

 

So my hdd on my late 2011 macbook pro failed. I opted to upgrade to an ssd for my OS and a sshd for my regular documents and such. My question is, am I able to run both into raid zero - that way I can use both storage simultaneously?

If they are the same capacity yes, but you won't see any performance gains because the as @LoneRangerS said, it will be as fast at your slowest drive, it wouldn't be smart. 

[TheRetiredSlave]

Raid 0 would be unwise.

 

Using them as separate drives in the same system, however, is a good thing to do.

[LarsReviews]

You can, but you shouldn't either get a 2ns SSD or leave them als individual drives.

[Seed]

As other's have said it's not wise. Plus, if I recall on the 2011, assuming you're going to use a caddy and replace your optic drive, one SATA is on SATA II and the other SATA III. Just get a fast drive small as your os drive and a phat drive to store stuff. I'd even map documents and all those folders default folders to the larger spinning disk. That's what I did on the last 2 MBPs I had for work before I had to get a retina.

[MrSuperb]

in theory you could set it up as a "fusion drive"

[Sauron]

Hi,

 

So my hdd on my late 2011 macbook pro failed. I opted to upgrade to an ssd for my OS and a sshd for my regular documents and such. My question is, am I able to run both into raid zero - that way I can use both storage simultaneously?

 

No, you can't. For raid to work properly drives must be identical. Otherwise you'll just loose performance instead of gaining it.

[KemoKa]

I wouldn't do it, to be honest. RAID 0 isn't a good idea on different types of drives, even ones of the same capacity and group, i.e. RAIDing a WD green and a WD black wouldn't be a good idea. You have to take into account cache sizes, etc. RAIDing different brands of drives isn't the best idea. You'll very rarely get the performance increase you were hoping for because, well, different circuitry, literally.

 

Just using the SSD and the SSHD as separate drives would be really good by itself. You could turn the 120GB SSD of the SSHD into 120GB of yummy cache. ooooh *sizzles*