RAID 1 using drives of different brands

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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
 
Will said:
There shouldn't be any problem with that.
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But, compare the capacities and if they are slightly different make sure
that the array is the size of the _smaller_ one.
 
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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is not perfect , but problems look more bad :-)
 
Previously J. Clarke said:
Will Dormann wrote:
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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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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
 
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