RAID0 with Seagate and WD

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Hi, I currently have this HD installed :

Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 - 500GB, 16mb Cache​

and i would like to pair it with this HD in a RAID0 setup:

Western Digital Caviar Blue - 500GB, 16mb Cache​



My question is, is it ok to pair different HD's? specifically these 2.

-Matt
 
Yeah, that will work. Just to forewarn you that there is no data integrity backup in raid 0. You would want to back up your data to a separate drive. If one drive fails, all your data is lost.
 
davidandersson said:
Just wondering, why does your WD only have a 16mb cache if it's new? I bought myself a 1tb hdd and it's got a 64 mb cache...
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It's the whole Blue/Green/Black difference. Each has higher levels of performance and such. Though, I've seen quite a high failure rate in the blue and green models. Though it's mostly been their external drives. I don't know what it is about Western Digital enclosures, but their My Book's have been dropping likes flies!
 
I find it a bit weird that they give options, but understandable. Personally I don't believe that there would be a mad difference in power consumption in the different levels
 
davidandersson said:
I find it a bit weird that they give options, but understandable. Personally I don't believe that there would be a mad difference in power consumption in the different levels
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Most of the power difference is in the green drives, they have a slower spindle speed.
 
davidandersson said:
I find it a bit weird that they give options, but understandable. Personally I don't believe that there would be a mad difference in power consumption in the different levels
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It isn't just the cache that differs, they have different software so they are more "intelligent" about how much power they use by spinning differently at different times and having different spindle speeds and what not, I don't engineer them so don't know exactly how, I just know that they do :P

And you'd be surprised how much they save (CAN save)
Power-conserving WD AV-GP SATA hard drives take advantage of WD GreenPower Technology to meet the extreme requirements of demanding audio and video environments. With power reduction of up to 40%, they deliver cool and quiet operation and reliability perfect for audio video applications such as PVRs, DVRs, set-top boxes (STBs) as well as surveillance video recording.
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Yup exactly, you want quiet drives in your HTPC. Too bad fast quiet fans are super freaking expensive. I settled for the middle of the road fans in mine, and I can hear them if nothing is playing.
 
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