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finnbh

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Hello!
I want to have a RAID 0 set up with a pair of ssds, however, one of them is a samsung 840 evo 120gb and the other is a crucial m500 120gb, I wonder if they would work together considering they have different controllers.

Also the samsung one is half full and the crucial is empty, I have a spare hard drive which I will use for help. Do I need to copy all of the files on the samsung (also holds the OS) onto the hard drive then I format both of the ssds and put them in raid 0, then I copy the files back?

Any help will be much appreciated!
Thanks.
 
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bryonhowley

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As far as the different makers of the SSD drive's that should not make any difference. But when you setup the SSD's in a RAID 0 Array both drives will be formatted and you will loose all info on them. You will need to back up any important data and re-install the OS. I do not know of any other way around that. There are programs that let you clone the hard drive and restore it but I have never used any of them. I have found it just as easy and fast to install the OS and go from there. For one I keep all my important files on a different drive any way along with my music movies documents downloads and such I never keep them on my boot drive.

With all that said I have my RAID 0 SSD setup with two different make/model SSD's and have not had a problem with them at all.
 
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