Saturday, 24 March 2018

motherboard - downsides to running RAID on unmatched drives?

I've got some generic RAID controller built into my motherboard and I want to build either a RAID 5 or RAID 0+1 array. What are the disadvantages of running unmatched drives? Like 4 different brand 7200rpm 500gb drives?


This would determine whether I look around for whatever used drives I could get my hands on vs. paying extra for a set of matched identical drives.

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