Could I used different brand and capacity in creating RAID? [Archive]

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altyne

8 Apr 2006, 3:25am

Currently, i have seagate 80gb sata with stripe raid.

Im planning to buy a new one with higher capacity; and want to create RAID setup in my HD.

is possible to install and configure these stuffs?

Kwitko

8 Apr 2006, 3:27am

Yes, but the array will default to the size of the smallest drive in the array. If you get a larger drive, anything over 80GB will be wasted.

Mt_Goat

8 Apr 2006, 2:26pm

Not to mention that different access times, platter desities and drive latencies will not mesh as well and give some weird results, not all good. But yes it will work and is very possible to mix and match. The loss of the extra space of using a larger drive would reall be 'ouch'!

altyne

10 Apr 2006, 1:45am

@Kwitko,@mtgoat
ok..thanks for the inputs :D