Fudgebar86 :
Lets say I have two HDD's and I want to set 'em up in RAID 0. One drive is an SSD drive, and the other is a SATA drive... Can they be set up in RAID 0? Will performance suffer at all as opposed to it being two SSD or SATA drives?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Just about everything you said is wrong. I am still laughing...
But out of generosity, I will explain:
First off, a HDD is not a SSD. They are both Hard Drives, but HDD = hard DISK drive, SSD = solid state drive.
Second, SATA is the name of the interface used to connect the hard drive to your motherboard. BOTH SSDs and HDDs use the SATA interface. Think of SATA as the cable connecting them.
Third, I suppose, technically, you could raid an SSD with an HDD, but this is something you *really* don't want to do... you'd loose just about all the advantages of SSDs and HDDs:
- You'd loose disk space on the HDD, as Raid must have the drives match in capacity
- You'd loose the speed of the SSD - it would be bottlenecked by the HDD, and by speed I mean everything... sequential r/w, random r/w, access time, Iops, usage reliability, trim... everything
- You'd loose the reliability of SSDs, as if the HDD failed, your array is kaput
- You'd loose the value of HDDs as you're still buying an SSD
- You'd loose the silence of an SSD, since you'd have an HDD running.
So no matter how you look at it, raiding an SSD with an HDD is a bad idea.
Finally, this is in the wrong forum... it should be in Hard Drives.