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Title: 320L - Mixed drives in RAID
Post by: chibakun on June 11, 2015, 06:19:11 AM
I have a two hard disk and I was hoping to make a NAS, but the drives are different brands.

Samsung HD103SJ 1000MB
AND
WD 1000MB WD10EZRX

Will they work together in a NAS, such as DLink 320L? in Raid 1 mirror?
Title: Re: 320L - Mixed drives in RAID
Post by: JavaLawyer on June 16, 2015, 08:46:42 AM
As long as each HDD is compatible with the DNS-320L, mixing HDD make/model should have no impact on the ability to create a RAID array.  The only constraint is that it's best that both HDDs have the same capacity, which they already do in your case (1 TB).

For informational purposes: if, for example,  you were to create a RAID-1 array with a 1TB HDD and 1.5TB HDD, the result would be a 1TB RAID-1, with 500MB of unallocated space in the 1.5 TB HDD.  The ShareCenter will create a RAID array with a size equal to the smaller of the two HDDs.
Title: Re: 320L - Mixed drives in RAID
Post by: chibakun on June 24, 2015, 02:42:27 AM
All working  :)
Title: Re: 320L - Mixed drives in RAID
Post by: FurryNutz on June 24, 2015, 07:13:29 AM
Enjoy.  ;)