When I first made my 3rd computer (not anything recent), I made it with four drives using RAID 10. All the manuals said to make sure they were not only the same size drive, but the same drive. I didn't care and partitioned my 500-GB IDE in two, and popped in two more 250-GB IDE drives, one Western Digital, and the other two different models. It had issues from the get-go, but seemed to work fine for a few months. Then, for whatever reasons, my IDE drives slowly went out one at a time until none of them worked any longer and I ended up get getting a Sata drive. Go figure. Either it was time (destiny), or you really should have the same drive and same size, lol.
P.S., when I say went out, I mean totally unusable and unrecoverable. I have no idea what happened to them. I let my kids take them out back and smash them to bits with hammers to see what was inside a HD.
P.S., when I say went out, I mean totally unusable and unrecoverable. I have no idea what happened to them. I let my kids take them out back and smash them to bits with hammers to see what was inside a HD.
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