Ameldr Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 I got 2xSeagate IronWolf 8TB (ST8000VN004) and 1x12TB shucked WD drive. Just wonder if put 2xSeagate BarraCuda 8 TB(ST8000DMZ04) for parity would cause any issue as their speed is slower than IronWolf Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 What do you plan to do with you WD 12TB ? No Data drive can larger than the Parity drive(s). Quote Link to comment
Ameldr Posted November 29, 2020 Author Share Posted November 29, 2020 6 hours ago, ChatNoir said: What do you plan to do with you WD 12TB ? No Data drive can larger than the Parity drive(s). Sorry for not clarify, 12TB is unused, plan is to use 2xSeagate IronWolf 8TB (ST8000VN004) for now with 2xSeagate BarraCuda 8 TB(ST8000DMZ04) for parity after while when i get another 12TB i will swap these parity drives to data and use 1 12TB for parity and then will insert other 12TB as data. Is that scenario is ok or all drives must be same rpm? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Drives don't have to be same speed but no disk in the parity array can be written faster than parity. Quote Link to comment
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