Comment on Can I use two different drives?
kool_newt@lemm.ee 7 months agoIt probably doesn’t matter in most cases, especially software RAID. I’ve had proprietary storage system vendors recommending being very careful about identical disks but that could just be salesman crap.
TCB13@lemmy.world 7 months ago
^this.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Right up until that job to turn the other drive and run the backup stops and then you don’t realize it until 17 months later.
Either way, RAID ain’t a backup, but it makes losing a drive easier.
TCB13@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you don’t setup and monitor things properly everything fails and keep going in an unpredictable state - even a software RAID.