Identical specs or drives for RAID

**The_Other_One** · 07-10-2006, 02:06 PM

I was thinking about setting up a "trial" RAID in hopes to explain how it worked, possibly for that video Ku-sama mentioned. Looking though my old components, I found a pair of 10G drives. Both are maxtor, both seem to have the same specs(at least written on the top.) However, they have a different model number, and the board on the bottom is slightly different(one has different cap.s and such on it...)

Has anyone tried a RAID with such a setup and gotten it to work, or do the drives have to be totally identical?

07-10-2006, 02:06 PM	#1 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 25 Posts: 13,430	Identical specs or drives for RAID I was thinking about setting up a "trial" RAID in hopes to explain how it worked, possibly for that video Ku-sama mentioned. Looking though my old components, I found a pair of 10G drives. Both are maxtor, both seem to have the same specs(at least written on the top.) However, they have a different model number, and the board on the bottom is slightly different(one has different cap.s and such on it...) Has anyone tried a RAID with such a setup and gotten it to work, or do the drives have to be totally identical? __________________ Primary- i7 920 \| 6GB RAM \| 9800GT \| 160+160+500GB Secondary- Athlon X2 4200 \| 2GB RAM \| 7600GT \| 80+250GB Netbook - Atom N280 \| 2GB RAM \| GMA945\| 160GB

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