Identical hard drive?

rmac8530 · April 21, 2015

I have a 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm Hard disk drive, and I'm planning to get another 1Tb Hard drive. Will I be needing exactly the same brand and model that I have right now? or will it be fine to get whatever I want?

techguru · April 21, 2015

huh?

for what?

Lolzious · April 21, 2015

Get whatever, unless you want to do a RAID setup, though I wouldn't recommend it if you're still new ;p

rmac8530 · April 21, 2015

Get whatever, unless you want to do a RAID setup, though I wouldn't recommend it if you're still new ;p

Great, thanks! What's a RAID setup?

Lolzious · April 21, 2015

Great, thanks! What's a RAID setup?

Mighty_Miro_WD · April 21, 2015

Hi there @rmac8530!

If you're going to use it as a second separate storage location, then you can go with pretty much every HDD you want.

However, for RAID it's not recommended to use different drives because it tends to lead to performance problems. For instance, the volume can only be the size of the smallest drive (or a multiple of it depending on raid level), and also different speed drives cause sync issues which means more latency.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!