ssd /hdd in raid zero

nerdnooby · February 19, 2016

can some one tell me if its possible to use a 128 GB SSD with a 8 TB HDD in raid zero or do the have to be the same sized drive I.E. 128GB SSD and 128GB HDD

Taswell · February 19, 2016

whyyyyyy. I think it would work but why there is so many downsides to this. Its going to slow down the SSD and 90% of the time nothing will be on there.

unless your trying to use the 128 as a huge cache for the 8TB but your raid card needs to support caching and that has not made it to many on board chips yet. I know dells 2015 optiplexes have it now

tomhumphrey · February 20, 2016

From Wikipedia:

A RAID 0 setup can be created with disks of differing sizes, but the storage space added to the array by each disk is limited to the size of the smallest disk. For example, if a 120 GB disk is striped together with a 320 GB disk, the size of the array will be 120 GB × 2 = 240 GB.