> I have used raid aware and non-raid aware disks for both hardware and software > raid. You really want the raid edition drives, as they will send a fail up the > channel much faster than a non-raid drive. The non-raid drives will retry over > and over, and you stand a chance of data loss while they decide what to do. > Software raid will just fail the drive and switch to degraded mode. > > -- > > MailScanner is like deodorant... > You hope everybody uses it, and > you notice quickly if they don't!!!! Ok, and should I mix disks from different vendors? I have read somewhere that this augments the reliability of the array, lowering the probability of 2 disks and more go down simultaneously?