Can I use two different drives? - eviltoast

I am building a NAS in RAID 1 (Mirror) mode. Should I buy 2 of the same drive from the same manufacturer? or does it not matter so much?

  • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I made that switch a few years ago for that reason.

    That said, as the saying goes, RAID is not a backup, it should never be the thing that stands between you having and losing all your data. RAID is effectively just one really dependable hard drive, but it’s still a single point of failure.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
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      11 months ago

      So you’re saying I should be running JBOD with backups instead of RAIDz1? You’re probably right. 🤭

      • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        11 months ago

        As long as you’re ok with it being way less dependable, and having to rebuild it from scratch more often 😉.