Can I do RAID 0 setup in these 2 Hard Drives?

[Maybe I know maybe not]

1. 500GB WD Caviar green 7200RPM 16mb cache2. 1.5TB WD Caviar black 7200RPM 64mb cacheCan I do RAID 0 with these HDD's even though they aren't same @ mb cache?

 

[smartdude94]

It's best to have 2 Identical hard drives in a RAID0 configuration. Two different size HD's with different caches will defeat the purpouse of RAID0 (speed) bacause one is larger, and the other has a small cache.

 

[Bob Bob]

Yes you can but performance will be sub optimal, and you will waste 1TB of space.

 

[4REEE]

Yes. You most certainly can.But here's the deal, 2 things:1.) The max capability of the RAID-0 array will be determined by the HDD with the lowest performance in terms of random access time, read time, write time, and data burst.2.) The largest size of the array will be 2x the size of the smallest HDD. In your case500GB x 2 = 1TBNote, that it's NOT 500GB + 1.5 TB = 2TB.So there will be 1TB of wasted space.***