RAID 1 using drives of different brands

[bill]

Is there a problem with using one Seagate and one Maxtor drive (each 120GB)
for a RAID 1 array?

Thanks,
Bill

 

[Will Dormann]

Is there a problem with using one Seagate and one Maxtor drive (each 120GB)
for a RAID 1 array?

There shouldn't be any problem with that.

 

[J. Clarke]

There shouldn't be any problem with that.

But, compare the capacities and if they are slightly different make sure
that the array is the size of the _smaller_ one.

 

[wolfgang schneider]

Is there a problem with using one Seagate and one Maxtor drive (each 120GB)
for a RAID 1 array?

Thanks,
Bill

is not perfect , but problems look more bad

 

[Arno Wagner]

Will Dormann wrote:

But, compare the capacities and if they are slightly different make sure
that the array is the size of the _smaller_ one.

The 120GB Seagates and Maxtors I have are of different size.
This should however only be a problem if you want to create the
array in degraded mode. In that case make sure you create it
with the smaller of the two drives.

Arno