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Do two hard drives need to be physically identical to work with RAID?
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No. The only requirement is the partitions must be the same size. There may be other limitations depending on your hardware. wrote: Do two hard drives need to be physically identical to work with RAID? Thanks. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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wrote in message oups.com... Do two hard drives need to be physically identical to work with RAID? Thanks. The only time this question is typically raised is w/ RAID1 (mirroring). Since you weren't specific, I will assume this is what concerns you. As far as hardware based RAID1 is concerned, ANY two HDs will work. If they are different in size, the only thing that happens is that the array uses the smaller of the two HD sizes. IOW, essentially the difference in space on the larger HD is lost. So there's no obstacle to using different sized HDs, it's purely an issue of ecomomics. Ideally, you'd like to waste as little HD space as possible, so the closer in size, the better. |
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On 9 Sep 2006 07:47:00 -0700, wrote:
Do two hard drives need to be physically identical to work with RAID? Thanks. No, but what did you have in mind? |
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