RAID5 - Can you use different drives?

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Tomorrow I have to go and fix a RAID5 array which currently consists of three Maxtor (I think) 500GB drives. A guy at work reckons I can just bang in a Seagate 500GB drive and rebuild the array, I was under the impression all drives had to be identical? So what will it be... will I have to order in some more Maxtor drives or can I use a Seagate drive on a Maxtor array? If it matters the array controller is a Adaptec 2420SA.

Cheers,

Craig
 
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