Stupid question?

[sixer9682]

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but can I run the same size SSDs from different manufacturers in a raid array , either 0 or 1?

 

[Soulzz]

I'm sure you can, but I would HIGHLY recommend against it.

 

[Soldier4Real]

Here's a pretty good article with some benchmarks that discusses exactly what you asked.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HETEROGENEOUS-RAID-ARRAYS-WORK,1789.html

 

[sixer9682]

Soldier, do the contents of that article hold true for SSDs or just traditional drives?

 

[Beaver]

I Think the same as Soulzz

 

[Soldier4Real]

I don't know for a fact but the idea is the same so I'm almost certain it would.

 

[HeatSurge]

I'm 100% sure you can do raid 0, even with non-matching sizes from different manufacturers, with the Intel ICHR10 (or whatever the X58 platform has) controller. It's just going to use the smaller space as determinant of the size of the array and leave the unused space on the bigger drive unpartitioned - you can then create a partition there if you want (although it's obviously going to slow down the array).

If it's another controller, or raid 1, I don't know.

If your SSDs are free to fuck with, just make it and see how fast it is and if you like it. It literally takes 1 minute to create the array.

I'm using a Raid 0 with a couple of older 250GB drives right now, and I'm pretty much loving it (32K strip which I believe was the best tradeoff between different situations from the benchmarks I saw).