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So, my friend just gave his 500gb seagate HDD. I currently have 2 hdd installed in my system one 1tb WB blue and a 320gb WD blue.

So can i RAID 0 the 500gb Seagate HDD and the 320GB WD BLUE. if yes, what kind of noticeable performance boost will i get?
 
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dude the risk of failure out weighs the performance gains if you do see any best to just build your array and run it then draw your own conclusions on what you find best for you overall and in the end

your own user experience is by far better then any ones
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best help I can give you is don't do a raid 0 if its for anything out side performance never for anything you intend to want to keep long term and may not afford to loose or easily get back if a raid 0 fail in any way its a goner data and all


'' splits ("stripes") data evenly across two or more disks, without parity information, redundancy, or fault tolerance. Since RAID 0 provides no fault tolerance or redundancy, the failure of one drive will cause the entire array to fail; as a result of having data striped across all disks, the failure will result in total data loss. ''

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels#RAID_0

 
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The main things i will be storing is games. Since the progress and stuff will be back up buy origin, steam etc so I am not so concerned about data loss. So will the RAID 0 setup make the loading of multiplayer maps and games much faster??
 
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that's what they claim?? to me raid array is like sli you want to use matched devices whan I do raid I buy 2 drives of the same size model at the same time from thee same place - I never mixed drives for any of my arrays so cant say how well what you got going will work out

i'll assume it will run equal to the lesser or slower drive in the array

just remember with raid 0 all the risk is on you

best thing to do is hook it up load it up and run it and see how it works out each time - may last years may last months may go a few hrs ???
 
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I will just RAID 0 the 320 and 500 gb hdds(The 1 tb hdd will be independent). will see noticeable gains in Game loading and stuff?
 
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dude the risk of failure out weighs the performance gains if you do see any best to just build your array and run it then draw your own conclusions on what you find best for you overall and in the end

your own user experience is by far better then any ones
 
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