Stripped volume across one new drive and one slower

[Jonathan1321]

I have recent my new F3 drive and have an old drive with 200GB of games I was thinking of copying the data from them on to storage then creating a stripped volume with the old drive and the new.

Wanted clarification on wether it is a good idea, considering the other drive probably has a slower read speed.

[bohb]

Both drives must be the exact same size, or the RAID0 will be the size of the lowest capacity drive (assuming the RAID controller supports it). If one drive is slower, you're probably going to end up with a weird sawtooth pattern of fast and slow data reads and writes.

I wouldn't bother making a RAID without identical drives, unless you have an existing recoverable array (not RAID0) that has a failing drive you can't find a replacement for.

[Jonathan1321]

Well I would be doing it via windows disk management I was led to beleive that it would allow me to do it with two seperate disks seperate sizes as long as there is 200GB free on each drive, can anyone verify this?

[Darkimmortal]

[QUOTE=Jonathan1321;33401491]Well I would be doing it via windows disk management I was led to beleive that it would allow me to do it with two seperate disks seperate sizes as long as there is 200GB free on each drive, can anyone verify this?[/QUOTE]

Yes you can raid per partition rather than per volume through software and get identical performance and reliability to fake/onboard hardware raid.