Raid with two different hard drives?

[Docretier]

They would both be 1tb at 7200 RPM. Would it affect the quality of raid if they aren’t the same model of drive.

[desertcomputer]

What are the model?

[NelizMastr]

9 minutes ago, Docretier said:

They would both be 1tb at 7200 RPM. Would it affect the quality of raid if they aren’t the same model of drive.

Capacity matters most in RAID. It's not set in stone that you should use identical drives otherwise, but it's generally done because it's easier to predict failures that way. A certain batch will be expected to fail at a similar time.

[Docretier]

2 minutes ago, EMC said:

What are the model?

The one I already have is a toshiba DT01ACA100 if I remember correctly(currently not home to check), and I would buy a new drive to pair it with(probably a WD blue 1tb 7200 rpm

[SupaKomputa]

Yes you can pair different drives in RAID.

The controller doesn't care if its not identical.

All it cares is the capacity, you would endup having the lowest capacity of the 2 drive.

So if one drive is 990gb vs 1024gb, it will read as 990gb (raid 1).

 

But if you wanna go with raid 0 why don't you just buy an SSD, the speed would trump 7200 drive on raid 0.

[Docretier]

5 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

Yes you can pair different drives in RAID.

The controller doesn't care if its not identical.

All it cares is the capacity, you would endup having the lowest capacity of the 2 drive.

So if one drive is 990gb vs 1024gb, it will read as 990gb (raid 1).

 

But if you wanna go with raid 0 why don't you just buy an SSD, the speed would trump 7200 drive on raid 0.

i have my operating system on a ssd, this is for secondary storage, such as games. i want 2tb storage, and i already have a 1 tb hdd for said storage. i want to add another terabyte and this would provide speed increase for lower price