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Question from a laic. When someone setups a RAID they usually buy disks from the same manufacturer. And those might stop working at the same time (e.g. warranty
by rvba 4y ago
Question from a laic. When someone setups a RAID they usually buy disks from the same manufacturer. And those might stop working at the same time (e.g. warranty for 24 months, so they 'strangely' fry in 25th).
Is it possible to mix disks from different manufacturers in a RAID?
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoLinux/FreeBSD software RAID (using OS tools or things like FreeNAS) doesn't care what the devices are, just that the space makes sense (e.g. for RAID1 you need 2 volumes of the same size). I'm not sure to the extent hardware RAID cares these days. NAS boxes from hard drive manufacturers might care about the drive vendor, but I've never used them.
- jf93ap29sh 4y agoTechnically you can mix & match as long as they are of the same capacity. Some NAS appliances might not like that tho. But a way around what you mention, keeping it to a single manufacturer: is to buy the drives from different retailers, hopefully geographically dispersed, a few weeks apart, to ensure you get drives from different manufacturing batches. Unless there's a systemic issue with the entire product line (unlikely to go unnoticed) you spread out the risk of a single bad batch that way. Maybe overkill, but that's what I did many years ago.