[windows2000] Re: OT: SATA Hard Drives

  • From: Dogers <dogers@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2006 18:45:20 +0000

On 06/02/06, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <> wrote on :
>
> > I am planning on buying a second 200GB hard drive and experiment with a
> > RAID array and I was wondering if it is advisable/recommended to buy the
> > same name brand?
>
> I run software raids in win2k/xp/win2k3 with same size-different brands
> harddrives. No problem there. If I'm building a software raid from
> scratch,
> I usually buy same size-same brand drives for practical purposes.
>

Well, software RAID is a bit more flexible than hardware :)

Andrew

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