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by matt5968

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When using hardware raid. Can you use 2 slightly different size drives to mirror. Also does the extra space on the larger drive get lost or unusable. thanks..

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by cg it

For Promise Technology IDE RAID Mirroring, identical drives are recommend [highly]. If you want to use your existing boot drive, a new, of equal or greater than capacity HDD is recommended.

Do you "lose" free space when mirroring with the mirrordrive larger than the boot [and application drive? Yes, because your mirroring the boot drive, not stripe.

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