Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be clean?

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com writes: One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data which I do not need to keep. My first

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be clean?

2014-09-17 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Dale wrote: On 16/09/14 03:03 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a

Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be clean?

2014-09-16 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data which I do not need to keep. My first

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be clean?

2014-09-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/09/14 03:03 PM, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be clean?

2014-09-16 Thread Bzzzz
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:03:41 -0400 Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: My first question is: although both drives are the same size, can I get away with having one drive a Seagate 3.0 and the other Samsung 2.0? Indeed, this is a very recommended configuration, as HDz of the same brand (and

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be clean?

2014-09-16 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 03:03:41PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data which I do not need to keep.