RAID 1 Array with WD Green and WD Blue

[bdecaudin]

I am trying to set up a computer with a RAID 1 configuration using 1 x WD Green (500 GB) and 1 x WD Blue (500 GB) drives. However I am getting an error when trying to add the Blue drive as a mirror. A dialog box named "Virtual Disk Manager"pops up with the following error message: "All disks holding extents for a given volume must have the same sector size, and the sector size must be valid".

Both disks are brand new and working. What am I missing? Are the drive incompatible for mirroring although they have the same size?

please advise and thank you in advance

Bruno
(bdecaudin@verizon.net)

 

[noidea_77]

WD Green works with 4K sectors, the Blue with 512B sectors. That's not going to work in a raid1.

 

[bdecaudin]

WD Green works with 4K sectors, the Blue with 512B sectors. That's not going to work in a raid1.

Many thanks - that is what i suspected and verified it after further research with the following command:

fsutil fsinfo ntfsinfo drive_letter

thank you

bruno