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I recently built my own computer, and I wanted to put my laptop hard drive in my desktop, possibly to do a RAID 0 or 1 (haven't decided yet). Is this even possible, or is it possible with an adapter cable?
I know the drive is only 2.5", but I can find a way of putting in to the 3.5" slot in my case if it will actually work.
The laptop hard drive is the default one that comes with the Toshiba Satellite A660 (500 GB, 7200 RPM).
Well I was actually thinking about RAID 0, to improve performance. Would having an older drive (2 yrs) affect performance at all even though it spins at the same speed? – nathpilland – 2012-07-19T17:42:22.590
If you make a stripe (RAID0) then it depends on a a few things. E.g. the driver could fill disk 1 and then disk 2. No performance is gained. You just get a bigger virtual drive). Or it could spread data a across the drives, which should give you faster speed. Regardless of which method used, if either of the drives fails you loose all data. So make sure you have backups of the important stuff. (I will admit that I assumed RAID 1 - mirroring). I specified that in the post. It does not hold when striping. – Hennes – 2012-07-19T17:46:42.130
I do have an external hard drive I can use for backups. If I do end up going with RAID 0, would this mean I would have 1.5 TB of space (my desktop HD is 1TB) or would I be limited to the space on my smallest drive (500 GB) – nathpilland – 2012-07-19T17:56:33.513