On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Robert Nesius wrote: > Don't think I'd ever mix drive manufacturer's in any RAID configuration, > myself. That seems to go against the grain. But maybe my notions on > that point are out-dated. Anyone else have opinions on that? Someone once told me that he thought it was better to mix them because it would be less likely that several would fail at nearly the same time. That makes sense. What would be the problem with mixing? In what sense does that go against the grain? Mike