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I still use old mechanical drives, with the Hitachi HGST HDS724040ALE640 4tb having served me well since release, bought because it was the 1st desktop specific 4tb drive bought back in May 2013.
Recently I purchased one again, well it was advertised as the HDS variant, and to my disappointment, an HGST HUS724040ALE640 4tb arrives. This was from memory more of an enterprise/nas specific drive for storage and archiving as opposed to general desktop usage?
I had to format the drive, it was partitioned in RAW, and of course I don't see the different model number until I am in HD Tune, basic testing shows they are pretty close in performance, but basic HD Tune is rather limited.
I don't know if I an just being silly or OCD having wanted two identical drives, I shopped around and bought it specifically for the identical model number, plan was simply to run them in Raid 1 mirrored, and maybe later try then in Raid 1 in a home NAS.
Is there anything wrong with running two different models or any potential issues I should be aware of? Not really looked at HDD specifications since buying the last one in 2013, previously I did stick to identical Samsung F3's when they came out for Raid 0 and Raid 1 in the days before SSD, and seem to have it in my head that you wanted identical model numbers for this?
Not sure if I should contact the seller or being silly with this.
Recently I purchased one again, well it was advertised as the HDS variant, and to my disappointment, an HGST HUS724040ALE640 4tb arrives. This was from memory more of an enterprise/nas specific drive for storage and archiving as opposed to general desktop usage?
I had to format the drive, it was partitioned in RAW, and of course I don't see the different model number until I am in HD Tune, basic testing shows they are pretty close in performance, but basic HD Tune is rather limited.
I don't know if I an just being silly or OCD having wanted two identical drives, I shopped around and bought it specifically for the identical model number, plan was simply to run them in Raid 1 mirrored, and maybe later try then in Raid 1 in a home NAS.
Is there anything wrong with running two different models or any potential issues I should be aware of? Not really looked at HDD specifications since buying the last one in 2013, previously I did stick to identical Samsung F3's when they came out for Raid 0 and Raid 1 in the days before SSD, and seem to have it in my head that you wanted identical model numbers for this?
Not sure if I should contact the seller or being silly with this.