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WIndows 2003 Server SBS- Disk Mirroring

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by atg8245

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When creating a RAID1 disk mirror on a Windows 2003 server , do both disks have to be the same manufacturer, size and type to create or just the same size???
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by jedurham36

I have used RAID 1 in this setup. It works great. Ihave also seen one disk fail, and it still worked. If one disk fails, you *must* replace it a disk of the same size or bigger (preferably same size). Different sized disks create more problems and eventualy fail, at least in my experiance.
Keeping manufacture, type, etc. the same is optimal, but not an absolute requirement. It does make sense for consistancy.
Wikipedia article on RAID:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

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