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Can I use two different drives? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

If you haven't looked into it, and if you already have the disks of varying capacity, check out JBOD. You will have to configure a system for backups however as you wont have parity like raid1

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Raid is not a backup...

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I'm aware, but raid 1 is mirroring which is redundancy, a jbod offers no redundancy so a backup would be even more crucial to protecting from data loss. Also i never said raid is a backup.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    JBOD via mergerfs and snapraid on top for parity is a possible solution.

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