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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...

On 10/7/2015 3:14 PM, Matt wrote: > 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 th...

John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2015 3:14 PM, Matt wrote: >> 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 &gt...

Well this is a new one.... Illumos/Openindiana let me add a device as a hot spare that evidently has a different sector alignment than all of the other drives in the array. So now I''m at the point that I /need/ a hot spare and it doesn''t look like I have it. And, worse, the other spares I have are all the same model as said hot spare. Is there anything I can do with this or