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