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04-02-2009, 12:38 PM
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I've just built my first computer and I am using one of my old hard drives. I would like to purchase another HDD and use the RAID 0 setting with my new motherboard. Do you have to have exactly the same brand/type/speed(rpm)/etc. to run these drives in RAID?
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04-02-2009, 03:21 PM
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Technically they don't have to match to work, but when speed is the goal (RAID 0) I wouldn't suggest it. One thing to look into, is that if you are using an older drive, using a single new drive may be a huge performance increase as it is, then you can use your old drive for storage or put it in an external case and use it for backup purposes.
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04-02-2009, 09:51 PM
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Buy two new identical drives.
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04-02-2009, 10:20 PM
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Why even use RAID? Keep it simple.
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