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Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Can I use two different drives?

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Can I use two different drives?

My Password Is 1234 to

Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

I am building a NAS in RAID 1 (Mirror) mode. Should I buy 2 of the same drive from the same manufacturer? or does it not matter so much?

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Yup. Same age, same design, same failures… and array rebuilds are super intense workloads that often force a lot of random reads and run the drive at 100% load for many hours.

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