RAID 1 using drives of different brands

[bill]

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Is there a problem with using one Seagate and one Maxtor drive (each 120GB)
for a RAID 1 array?

Thanks,
Bill

 

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bill wrote:
> Is there a problem with using one Seagate and one Maxtor drive (each 120GB)
> for a RAID 1 array?

There shouldn't be any problem with that.


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Will Dormann wrote:

> bill wrote:
>> Is there a problem with using one Seagate and one Maxtor drive (each
>> 120GB) for a RAID 1 array?
>
> There shouldn't be any problem with that.

But, compare the capacities and if they are slightly different make sure
that the array is the size of the _smaller_ one.

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In article <1HD1e.23162$Ue6.9973@trndny04>, no_replies@verizon.com
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> Is there a problem with using one Seagate and one Maxtor drive (each 120GB)
> for a RAID 1 array?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>

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Previously J. Clarke <jclarke.usenet@snet.net.invalid> wrote:
> Will Dormann wrote:

>> bill wrote:
>>> Is there a problem with using one Seagate and one Maxtor drive (each
>>> 120GB) for a RAID 1 array?
>>
>> There shouldn't be any problem with that.

> But, compare the capacities and if they are slightly different make sure
> that the array is the size of the _smaller_ one.

The 120GB Seagates and Maxtors I have are of different size.
This should however only be a problem if you want to create the
array in degraded mode. In that case make sure you create it
with the smaller of the two drives.

Arno