Can I RAID these two SSDS?

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baileywill

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I just got a 64 Gb SSD, (link below) and I love it. Only, after installing Windows 7, it only has 15 Gb left.
First SSD

I want to get another SSD (link below) that is 256 Gb.
Second SSD

I plan on creating a RAID with the two drives. I read online that sometimes when you create RAIDs with two drives of different sizes, it will give you a lower storage space than the two combined. i.e. since I would have 256 Gb and 64 Gb drives, instead of giving me 320 Gb total it would give me 128 Gb total. Could someone please tell me if RAIDing these to drives will give 320 Gb of storage space? Also, the original SSD has programs on it + Windows 7. Will these stay on the drive after RAIDing or does RAIDing wipe the drive clean?
 
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Almost worth it to ditch the 64GB completely. Toss it into a laptop.

Disc cloning between different sized SSDs is not something I have messed with. From HDD to SSDs, yes, but I've not tried going from one SSD to another. The free tool I use most is called Clonezilla, this will let you keep your OS without having to re-install everything or reactivate, usually.

TheSamsung kit that comes with the 'boxed' upgrade version of their 250GB drive is kind of neat and you get a USB to SATA adapter, not sure how good a job it did reformatting the data to fit the new size but it worked without issues.
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RAID wipes the drive clean.

It will give you a total of 128GB unless you use "JBOD" which really isn't RAID, just so that the 2nd drive continues where the 1st ends. It has absolutely none of the advantages from RAID, just makes it so that the two disks seem like one.

Also, in your situation, you'd need RAID 0 which doubles space, but if one drive dies, both lose all information.
 
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Almost worth it to ditch the 64GB completely. Toss it into a laptop.

Disc cloning between different sized SSDs is not something I have messed with. From HDD to SSDs, yes, but I've not tried going from one SSD to another. The free tool I use most is called Clonezilla, this will let you keep your OS without having to re-install everything or reactivate, usually.

TheSamsung kit that comes with the 'boxed' upgrade version of their 250GB drive is kind of neat and you get a USB to SATA adapter, not sure how good a job it did reformatting the data to fit the new size but it worked without issues.
 
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