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Different disk size in raid 0?

Pierre Dabrunst
By Pierre Dabrunst
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I have 3 HDD's in my desktop machine that are 500GB, 640GB and 700GB in size.

Can I mix them together in a RAID 0?

I don't mind losing some diskspace since if I get 500GB on each drive since I still have about 1.5TB on my storage array.

 

The plan is since I cannot afford any SSD's yet, I want to get some better performance out of my HDD's.  All drives are on a 6GB/s SATA link and 7200RPM drives.

And after I made the RAID, make a 250GB OS Drive with partitioning the array and have a bigger storage partition.  I do not really store critical data on my drives that I really need to have, those I store on my NAS.

 

So can I mix the sizes and still get a performance boost?

System Specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZGCRxg

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1 minute ago, JohnnyCorporalTech said:

similar topic:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1967240/raid-sized-drives.html

I already read that, but didn't find it so helpful and confusing since nothing of it really awnserd the question I was going for.

System Specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZGCRxg

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