Can I raid 0 SATA and IDE hard drives

[salilsurendran]

Hello,
I have 3 drives of all different capacities and two of them are SATA and one of them is IDE. Can I RAID 0 them in a desktop to be get maximum speed. My motherboard is "ASUS P5Q Pro LGA 775 Intel P45 ATX Intel Motherboard"

 

[nukemaster]

The IDE controller is shared with the E-SATA port so the only way you could run raid with those drives would be some kind of 100% software solution.

Different speeds and capacities of drives in raid 0 have very strange interactions as well.

It is also important to know that RAID 0 will make ALL drives the same size as the smallest.

2 x 1TB = 2TB
1TB and 2TB = 2TB
320GB + 640GB + 1TB = 960GB

 

[salilsurendran]

The IDE controller is shared with the E-SATA port so the only way you could run raid with those drives would be some kind of 100% software solution.

Different speeds and capacities of drives in raid 0 have very strange interactions as well.

It is also important to know that RAID 0 will make ALL drives the same size as the smallest.

2 x 1TB = 2TB
1TB and 2TB = 2TB
320GB + 640GB + 1TB = 960GB

Not clear what you mentioned . You said that the size of the RAID would the size of the smallest disk. But your example says 1TB + 2TB = 2TB.

 

[nukemaster]

sorry to clear it up.

size of smallest disk X(times) number of disks in the array.