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...ate?hurdle), I will be creating a software RAID... Lets say I have three drives "knocking" around which are all 1TB SATA II drives but each made by a different manufacturer. I am going to guess that these couldn't be used in a RAID 5? Or could they? However could a similar result of 2TBs of data with redundancy be achieved with JBOD? Also regarding RAID 5, three drives of data to one for parity is the max ratio I?believe? I.e. to expand this by adding another data drive, the original parity drive would no longer cover this and another would be required, is this correct? One more...

...n date of purchase: 836EL2s, 846s and 847s - sol10u8, 1.26/1.29/1.30 LSI firmware on LSI retail 3801 and 3081E controllers. Not that it works any better on the brace of 9211-8is I also tried these drives on.) Before signing up for the list, I "accidentally" bought a wad of caviar black 2TBs. No, they are new enough to not respond to WDTLER.EXE, and yes, they are generally unhappy with my boxen. I have them "working" now, running direct-attach off 3 3081E-Rs with breakout cables in the SC836TQ (passthru backplane) chassis, set up as one pool of 2 6+2 raidz2 vdevs (16 drives t...