Same harddrive but different capacity... raid capable?

[ChrisUlrich]

74gb and a 150gb 10k WDC Raptor. Can I pair these two up for raid?

 

[gamerman4]

Yes but you will lose the extra space from the larger drive. The 150GB will format as a 74GB and both will combine into a 148GB RAID 0 array.

 

[Springy182]

Yes but you will lose the extra space from the larger drive. The 150GB will format as a 74GB and both will combine into a 148GB RAID array.

That's if he does RAID 0, if he does RAID 1 it'll only be 74GB

 

[gamerman4]

That's if he does RAID 0, if he does RAID 1 it'll only be 74GB

fixed

 

[Springy182]

I'm not 100% sure but I think there's some non standard levels of RAID that utilize one drive being a higher capacity, good luck finding a RAID card for that though

 

[gamerman4]

I'm not 100% sure but I think there's some non standard levels of RAID that utilize one drive being a higher capacity, good luck finding a RAID card for that though

Vista and Windows 7 can do a software RAID that allows you to create a normal partition off of any left-over capacity.