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EMENCII
By EMENCII
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Hello everyone,

I thought that since I have a 500GB external HDD lying around, I'd RAID it with my WD black (500GB) in raid 0. Is it even possible to make a raid between SATA and USB?

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EMENCII

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Im not sure if it is possible, but even if it is, the speed would be limited to the slowest drive, in this case the external one.

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not possible i think. you could rip out the drive from the external HDD and possbly put in in your PC but there is no guarantee that would work at all

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It should be possible. At least, through software RAID it should work. 

Wouldn't advise it, though. RAID 0 is never really a good idea, and even worse with external or somewhat "funky" combination of drives. 
 

 

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9 minutes ago, Bananasplit_00 said:

not possible i think. you could rip out the drive from the external HDD and possbly put in in your PC but there is no guarantee that would work at all

not possible either, the external one is usb3 right from the drive's pcb, is not converted from sata....

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

It should be possible. At least, through software RAID it should work. 

Wouldn't advise it, though. RAID 0 is never really a good idea, and even worse with external or somewhat "funky" combination of drives. 
 

 

ok, I guess I'll give it away then, I wasn't convinced from the start... :D 

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