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Dual RAID Cache?
If I have a dual drive RAID0 over firewire800, is it a bad idea to have two identical sized drives, both of the same brand, but with different cache sizes? (one 32mb one 16mb?)
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Tom Morter-Laing
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Although it is always recomended to use the same specification drive when creating a RAID array, using different drives will result in only operating as fast as the slowest drive. Would it be a bad idea?…In your case, Not at all. Since your only using 2 drives in RAID 0, the different cache just doesn’t make a difference. Drive cache would be more important perhaps in a very large server/storage envronment with more IO requests.
Ricardo Reyes
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