a hard drive question.....

[silent]

hi

this is probably going to be a really stupid question, but can i use 2 500 gig hdd's from different manufacturters in a raid formation?

not sure what raid mind you, but a general raid/hdd q.

thanks

i have a 500 gig samsung at present.

[Bugbait]

this is probably going to be a really stupid question, but can i use 2 500 gig hdd's from different manufacturters in a raid formation?

Yes, although it's not really recommended as the entire RAID will only perform as well as the slowest HDD.

[0iD]

Striped, I'd personally use identical, mirrored, you could probably get away with different drives.

[silent]

ok, cool. cheers.

best i get a matching samsung then

[peterb]

Yes, safest option - and if you are planning to use RAID1, gopod that you are getting drives mfrd at different times. Although unlikely, it has been known for a batch of drives to have a fault meaning that they all failed at about the same time - not good in RAID 1 - particularly if you don't notice when one has failed and the other fails shortly after. Of course it doesn't matter so much in RAID 0 - if one drive fails, you have lost the data anyway.