Originally Posted by homeslice Is it possible to play with the block sizes that a raid controller sends out to a hard drive, as to use a small hard drive with a large hard drive, and not loss a lot of space. Or is this impossible and just go with jbod. |
Originally Posted by nayo_450 it should work out 2 100gb drive after all Raid does stand for random arrray of inexpensive drives, that is different from SED or even TED, Single expensive Drive, and Twin Expensive Drives.(respectavely) |
Originally Posted by slow'puter So, could it be possible to partition the larger drive to the size of the smaller one and then set up a RAID 0? Would the second partition on the larger drive become wasted space or an actual logical drive outside the RAID array? |
Originally Posted by homeslice I dont think you could partition the drives, as raid is a hardware thing, but could you send two drives different amounts of data, like sending a 40 giger 40% of data and a 60 gig 60% of the data effectively making a raid system of two different size drives, and not lossing any space (in raid 0). I have not heard of a system of this type before. |
Originally Posted by slow'puter If I have to go through the hassle of saving stuff, reformatting and re-installing, I am not doing this. And I believe I read somewhere else that all existing data is erradicated when setting up the RAID. |