can i use different drives for raid

rippling · 3 Jun 2009 at 19:13

ie can i use a 500 g seagate and a 500 g WD drive on a raid set up ? thasnks

RavenLunatic · 3 Jun 2009 at 20:51

Yes.

I am using 2 different makes in my own RAID 0 array.

goodl · 4 Jun 2009 at 11:50

rippling said:
ie can i use a 500 g seagate and a 500 g WD drive on a raid set up ? thasnks

I used a Samsung and a hitachi in a matrix raid 1 setup but had sync issues, since I changed both to hitachis the problems went away

miniyazz · 4 Jun 2009 at 23:03

goodl said:
I used a Samsung and a hitachi in a matrix raid 1 setup but had sync issues, since I changed both to hitachis the problems went away

am I right in thinking they had different cache amounts?I could see that confusing your controller!