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OS 6.9.0-RC1 warning about dissimilar drives
One of the drives in my "sandbox" system (Pro2 with latest beta, currently 6.9.0-RC1) died (I use ones with higher SMART errors removed form other systems, as much as anything to see if the new OS ve...
Interesting, I replaced 2 of 4 7200rpm 2tb drives with 2 5980rpm 4 tb drives under ReadyNASOS 6.9.0-T62 (Beta 2) on my Pro 4 a couple of weeks back.
No warnings were given, now on ReadyNASOS 6.9.0 (RC1) and all is well (still)
Maybe more critical in a RAID1 than a RAID5? I may have never done this in a 2-bay unit.
With disks with dissimilar speed you're limited by the speed of the slowest disk. You can mix and match drive speeds but it's obviously not the ideal configuration.
I guess this may start to have more of an impact once you start using features like SSD tiering.
I'm wondering how the warning was worded?
I'm not sure how this ties to tiering, but I could see it having a bigger performance impact in some of the more complicated RAID modes (RAID-50 and RAID-60).
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