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...have 3 drives and ordered a third in accidentally did not get EXACT >> same thing. Would there be ANY issues mixing these? > > using Linux MDRAID ? they'll probably be fine. they are all 7200rpm > drives so should have quite similar performance. main difference is the > MTBE spec It's "enterprise" grade, where the two reds are "NAS-ready". In either case, the TLER should be 7 sec, so it should work. The ones to watch out for are the desktop grade, like the green (bleah!!!), which have a TLER of something like 2 MINUTES. That will *not* work in...

I have 3 4TB WD drives I want to put in a RAID1 array. Two WD4000FYYZ and One WD4000F9YZ All enterprise class but two are WD Re and one is WD Se. I ordered the first two thinking 2 drives in the raid array would be sufficient but later decided its a long drive to the server so I would rather have 3 drives and ordered a third in accidentally did not get EXACT same thing. Would there be ANY

...o I would rather > have 3 drives and ordered a third in accidentally did not get EXACT > same thing. Would there be ANY issues mixing these? using Linux MDRAID ? they'll probably be fine. they are all 7200rpm drives so should have quite similar performance. main difference is the MTBE spec -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz