On 2007-02-02 07:56 -0000, Pete Clarke wrote: > >I'd still prefer to have all my RAID drives be the same manufacturer > >+ model. Maybe that's just an ingrained habit I picked up in the > >1990s. > > Indeed ... I thought it would be better to have all the same, as > I remember different brands of drive sometimes had > incompatibilities (WD and Maxtor spring to mind).
I don't think that would be an issue with SATA since there is no shared bus. > Also, as it defaults to the smallest size, having all drives the > same means you don't lose any more space than the parity drive. Disk sizes are rather uniform these days. As far as I can tell IBM/Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital have the same size (200 GB = 24321 cylinders, 250 GB = 30401 cylinders, 500 GB = 60801 cylinders). The only exception is Maxtor which is always a little bigger (250 GB = 30515 cylinders). -- André Majorel <http://www.teaser.fr/~amajorel/> bugs.debian.org, food for your spambots. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
