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?

  • Kaldo@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    I always thought you’re supposed to buy similar drives so the performance is better for some reason (I guess the same logic as when picking RAM?) but this thread is changing my mind, I guess it doesn’t matter after all👀

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      11 months ago

      ram matters because the CPU will use the worse speeds and worse timings of all the sticks, drive reads and rights are buffered so it doesn’t really matter

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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        11 months ago

        Just make sure your RAM has the same timings. Its not a big deal if you have two sticks of each brand