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I'm planning to RAID0 two Maxtor D740X 80G and currently I have one D740X-6J model. I went to nearby store trying to get another one but they only carry the D740-6L model. Is it perfectly fine that I RAID0 these two drives?? As far as I know about RAID0 is that I'll need two identical hard drives (for best performance), but since the only difference between the two drives is that one is ball bearing (the 6J model) and another is fluid dynamic bearing (the 6L model), can we still say that these two are identical??

thanks in advance for your help.

Jason.

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I'm planning to RAID0 two Maxtor D740X 80G and currently I have one D740X-6J model. I went to nearby store trying to get another one but they only carry the D740-6L model. Is it perfectly fine that I RAID0 these two drives?? As far as I know about RAID0 is that I'll need two identical hard drives (for best performance), but since the only difference between the two drives is that one is ball bearing (the 6J model) and another is fluid dynamic bearing (the 6L model), can we still say that these two are identical??

thanks in advance for your help.

Jason.

It should be fine. Generally you want the drives to be identical to get the most consistant performance; note that I didn't say "best" performance. All that really matters is that the drives are the same size, not just nGB, but right down to the total sector count.

Outside of size, they could be different makes, models, speeds, RPM.. none of that will affect anything but performance; If they're not the same size exactly though, it probably won't work at all.. or you'll only get to use the capacity on each drive equal to the smallest drive in the array.