raid with 2 diffrent drives.

[mDust]

is raid 5 faster then 0?

No, but there isn't much of a performance difference between the two. RAID 5 uses the third disk for parity which can be used to rebuild either of the two data disks if one fails. It's basically a hybrid of the way both a RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring) concepts. If you put 3 500GB HDDs in RAID 5 you will have a 1TB array with complete data integrity unless 2/3 drives die at the same time.

[blaze15301]

No, but there isn't much of a performance difference between the two. RAID 5 uses the third disk for parity which can be used to rebuild either of the two data disks if one fails. It's basically a hybrid of the way both a RAID 0 (striping) and RAID 1 (mirroring) concepts. If you put 3 500GB HDDs in RAID 5 you will have a 1TB array with complete data integrity unless 2/3 drives die at the same time.

well i already have raid zero set up. the 500 is going to be used for media stuff movies music etc.. so far everything i working great. apps are opening up faster now windows still takes like 20 secs to load.

[x88x]

Just pray your drive never fails.

[blaze15301]

Just pray your drive never fails.

i usally dont store anything important on my window drive anyways just gmaes and unimportant things.