On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 02:00, Buck wrote:
(Maxtor had to replace 8 drives in 2 years for me. A bad spell for some reason.) Saw the same thing here, over and over - I don't trust them any more.
I believe you will be hurting your speed by mixing a high speed with a slower speed HDD in striping. The 7200 speed drive will share write time with the 5400 resulting an average between the two drives. I won't do that much different - both 5400rpm, one with 2mb cache, one with 512k. 512k model is two years newer, and actually perform very similarly to the 2mb (but older) model.
But it will leave you with a common average speed. I don't think so, the slower drive can't raise it's own performance to halfway between itself and the faster one. The faster drive would be forced to wait for the slower one, so it would be like having two of the slower drive.
Hans