Identical specs or drives for RAID

[The_Other_One]

I was thinking about setting up a "trial" RAID in hopes to explain how it worked, possibly for that video Ku-sama mentioned. Looking though my old components, I found a pair of 10G drives. Both are maxtor, both seem to have the same specs(at least written on the top.) However, they have a different model number, and the board on the bottom is slightly different(one has different cap.s and such on it...)

Has anyone tried a RAID with such a setup and gotten it to work, or do the drives have to be totally identical?

 

[Geoff]

As long as their the same size and have the same basic specs, it should work fine. If it doesn't, you'll probably just receive a blue screen or error message.

 

[fade2green514]

actually no... you can use a 120 and an 80gb drive together. it won't work very well, and the 120 drive will just use 80gb of itself.
its definitely suggested that you use two identical drives though because each drive has its own spec on lookup time and throughput...
ive done it before with my 120 and 250, it ended up as a 240gb hard drive. lol
anyways, i highly suggest u use two identical hard drives. i think the only requirement is that they be for the same interface such as sata because the raid card is normally either for sata or for ide... some motherboards have two raid cards integrated, one for sata and one for ide.